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Ishan Ashutosh Assistant Professor, Department of Indiana University

Student Building 120, 701 E. Kirkwood Ave. (812)855-6303 Bloomington, IN 47405 [email protected] https://geography.indiana.edu/about/faculty/ashutosh-ishan.html

EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., Geography, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 2002 M.A. Social Sciences, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 2001 B.A. , cum laude, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY

EMPLOYMENT Fall 2014-present Assistant Professor, Department of Geography; Core Faculty Member, Dhar India Studies; Affiliate Faculty, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society, , Asian American Studies, Critical Race and Postcolonial Studies, Islamic Studies; Adjunct Assistant Professor of , Indiana University at Bloomington

Fall 2012-2014 Lecturer, Politics and American Studies, Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK

Fall 2010-2012 Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Research Activities

PUBLICATIONS Published Peer Reviewed Articles Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “Postcolonial and Colonialism’s Mutations: the geo-graphing of South Asia in the mid-twentieth century,” Geography Compass. e12478 (12 pages)

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “The spaces of diaspora’s revitalization: Transregions, infrastructure and urbanism.” in , p.0309132519868765 (21 pages)

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Ashutosh, Ishan. 2019. “On the grounds of the global Indian: Tracing the disjunctive spaces between diaspora and the nation-state.” Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 37(1), Pgs 41-58.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. “Mapping Race and Environment: geography’s entanglements with Aryanism.” Journal of Historical Geography 62 (October), Pgs. 15-23.

Cook, Ian R. and Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “Television drama and the urban diegesis: portraying Albuquerque in Breaking Bad.” , 39(5), Pgs. 746-762.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “America’s Battle over South Asia.” Tides Magazine. Available from: https://www.saada.org/tides/article/americas-battle-over-south-asia (6pages)

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2017. “The Geography Area Studies Interface from the Second World War to the Cold War.” Geographical Review 107.4 (2017): 705-721.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2015. “Replacing the nation in the age of migration: negotiating South Asian identities in Toronto.” Fennia: International Journal of Geography 193(2): 212- 226.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2014. “From the Census to the City: Representing South Asians in Canada and Toronto. Diaspora 17(2): 130-148.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. “Immigrant Protests in Toronto: diaspora and Sri Lanka’s civil war.” Citizenship Studies 17(2): 197-210.

Crane, Nicholas Jon and Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. “A Movement Returning Home? Critical Geographies of Occupy Wall Street After the Evictions.” Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies 13(3): 168-172.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2012. "South Asians in Toronto: geographies of transnationalism, diaspora, and the settling of differences in the city." South Asian Diaspora 4(1): pp. 95- 109.

Ashutosh, Ishan and Alison Mountz. 2012. “The geopolitics of migrant mobility: tracing state relations through refugee claims and discourses.” Geopolitics 17: pp. 335-354.

Ashutosh, Ishan and Alison Mountz. 2011. “Migration management for the benefit of whom? Interrogating the work of the International Organization for Migration.” Citizenship Studies, Vol. 15, Nos. 6/7: pp. 21-38.

Ashutosh, Ishan and Jamie L. Winders. 2009. “Teaching Orientalism in Introductory Human Geography.” The Professional . 61: 3, pp. 1-14.

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Ashutosh, Ishan. 2008. “Recreating the community: South Asian transnationalism in Chicago.” Urban Geography 29: 3, pp. 224-245.

Edited Books in Progress Companion to , co-edited with Jamie Winders, Wiley Blackwell (anticipated release 2021).

Articles in Progress Ashutosh, Ishan. ‘Citizens or Diasporas in Motion: the status of the Nation-State, Origins, and Return in Migration Studies.’ Dialogue in Human Geography book forum, submitted June 2019.

Book Chapters Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. “When Ethnography Meets Space.” Handbook on the Geographies of Power, Mat Coleman and John Agnew, eds. Edward Elgar: Northampton.

Encyclopedia Entries Ashutosh, Ishan. 2016. “Sovereignty.” In The Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of Geography, Douglas Richardson, ed.

Book Reviews Ashutosh, Ishan. 2018. Mobility, ethnography and state power: Jennifer Hyndman and Wenona Giles’ Refugees in Extended Exile. Book Review Forum, The AAG Review of Books (w. Mat Coleman).

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2014. Home and Native Land: Unsettling multiculturalism in Canada. May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, and Sonali Thakkar, eds. Canadian Geography/Le Geographe canadien.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2013. Aspiring to Home: South Asians in America by Bakirathi Mani. International Migration Review 47(3): 779-80.

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2011. Landscape, race and memory: material of citizenship by Divya Praful Tolia-Kelly. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (online): http://societyandspace.com/reviews/reviews-archive/tolia-kelly-landscape-race/

Ashutosh, Ishan. 2005. The World in a City, Paul Anisef and Michael Lanphier, eds. Urban Geography. 26: 8, pp. 748-749.

GRANTS 2016 Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Undergraduate Research Project ($1950)

2016 Asian American Studies Travel Grant ($800)

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2015 Antipode International Workshop Award ($12000)

2015 Dhar India Studies Conference Award, Indiana University ($5000)

2015 Office of Vice President for International Affairs, Indiana University ($2000)

2015 New Frontiers in the Arts & Humanities-New Currents Competition, Indiana University ($13269)

2015 Ostrom Grants Program, Indiana University ($3500)

2014 College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University ($9200)

2014-2015 Rockefeller Center Grant in Aid ($4000)

2010-2014 Social and Behavioral Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, The Ohio State University

2009 Maxwell Dean’s Summer Research Award, Syracuse University ($1,650)

2008-2009 Maxwell Dean’s Dissertation Award/Fellowship, Syracuse University ($15,500)

2007-2008 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant ($11,255)

2006 Sopher Memorial Scholarship, Syracuse University ($2,500)

2006 Roscoe-Martin Fund for Research, Syracuse University ($1,500)

2004 Goekjian Scholar Summer Research Grant, Syracuse University ($2,200)

INVITED LECTURES AND TALKS 2017. The Death of Diaspora and the Geographies of Revitalization. Department of Geography, Lexington, University of Kentucky.

2017. The State of Diaspora. Centre for Refugee Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada.

2017. Diaspora’s Conceptual Disappearance: from Subversion to Assimilation. Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.

2017. Geography's Lost History in Colonial India: Environmental Determinism and Aryanism. Illinois State University, Normal, USA.

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2015. “The Global Indian and the Production of Distinctions in the Diaspora.” Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Ohio State University.

2013. “Tethering Diasporas: Nation-States and the Transnational Practices of the South Asian Diaspora.” School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2012. “Between Gods, Bombs, and Oil: The American Imagination of South Asia.” Department of Social Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne.

2011. “Multicultural Reflections, Transnational Refractions: ‘South Asian’ Identities in Toronto.” Social and Behavioral Sciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

REFEREED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS 2019. Between Tradition and Modernity: India’s Emergence in American Scholarship in the Interwar Period, American Association of Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2019. Author meets critics: 'Citizens in motion: emigration, immigration and re-migration across China's borders' by Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho, Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2019. Race, territoriality, and xenophobia in an age of migration 'crises', Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2019. The Politics & Space Dialogue: Questioning Nationalism, Panelist. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2017. 2017. Lost Geographies: American constructions of South Asia during the World Wars. Indiana University-Ambedkar University Delhi Joint Symposium, New Delhi, India.

2017. South Asian Diasporas and the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, USA. 2016. Mapping Race and Culture in Colonial India. Race, Place, and Capital Workshop, The Ohio State University.

2016. South Asian diasporic spaces in North America and Europe: towards a comparative approach. Workshop: Asian Diaspora Space in Europe at the Intersection of Gender, Sexuality and Race. Center for Metropolitan Studies, Berlin.

2015. “Mapping Terra Incognita: British and American Colonialisms and the Native Informant.” Comparative Subalternities: Socio-Spatial Marginalization in the Global South. Indiana University, India Gateway Office, Gurgaon, Harayana.

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2015. “Managing and Contesting South Asian (Im-)Mobilities: State/Non- State Actors and Urban Networks.” International Conference of , Ramallah, Palestine.

2015. “Dividing the World and Writing the Earth: Geography and Area Studies 1945- 1960.” History of Recent Annual Meeting. Harvard University.

2015. Geography and Asian American Studies. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, panelist.

2015. “Distinctions within the Geosocial: South Asian Diasporas and Transnational Subject Making.” Association of the American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago.

2014. “Amorous Politics? Interrogating the US-UK Special Relationship” (with Nick Hayward), British Association of American Studies, Birmingham, UK.

2013. “Replacing the Nation in the Age of Migration: Negotiating South Asian Identities in Toronto and New York City,” Royal Geographic Society, London, UK.

2013. “The Politics of Asylum in Contemporary Empire: State Exclusion and Delegations of Migration Management in the UK” (w/Tom Vickers), British Sociological Association, Birmingham, UK.

2013. “Passages of Orientalism: Area to Ethnic/Minority Studies and South Asian migrations in the United States, Britain, and Canada,” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

2013. “South Asian Area Studies in the American Imagination,” Scottish Association for the Study of America Meeting, Glasgow, Scotland.

2012. “The International Organization for Migration and the Borders of South Asia,” Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

2012. “Assessing the Nexus of State/Non-State Actors in Migration Management in South Asia,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, NY.

2011. “Diasporic Solidarities and Difference: creating ‘South Asian’ identities in Toronto,” Assessing the Complexities of South Asian Migration Conference, Waterloo, ON.

2011. “New Solidarities, New Multiculturalisms: South Asian Experiences in Toronto,” Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA.

2011. “Transnational Belonging: Indian neoliberalism and diasporic nationalisms in the United States and Canada,” Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI.

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2010. “Regimenting Diasporas: the transnational and Multicultural politics of Toronto’s ‘South Asians,’” Association of the American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

2009. “Geographies of the Everyday Multicultural State: Toronto’s ‘South Asian’ Communities,” Royal Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK.

2009. “Re-defining Boundaries through Multiculturalism: the contours of Toronto’s South Asian communities,” CERIS Graduate Student Conference, Toronto, ON.

2009. “Everyday Sovereign Power through Multiculturalism: the contours and cleavages of Toronto’s South Asian migrants,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

2007. “For return to Iraq, press 1”: Geographies of the nation-state and the International Organization for Migration,” (with Alison Mountz), International Conference for Critical Geography, Mumbai, India.

2007. “The Muslim ‘Other’ and Re-conceptualizations of the Nation-State,” Association of the American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA.

2006. “(Re-)Creating the Community: Transnational Migrants, Business, and the State on Chicago’s Devon Avenue,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

2005. “Asian-Indian Transnationalism on Chicago’s Devon Avenue,” Association of Asian-American Studies Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.

2004. “Transnationalism along Chicago’s Devon Avenue,” 33rd Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, WI

TALKS AT INDIANA UNIVERSITY 2017. Diasporas Migration in the Social Sciences. Cultural Studies Program Annual Conference, Indiana University.

2017. Re-Drawing Borders: South Asian cities beyond South Asia. South Asian Urbanization Workshop. Dhar India Studies, Indiana University

2017. The Politics of Immigration Enforcement, Panelist. Students Against State Violence and UndocuHoosiers Alliance.

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2016. “Mapping Race and Culture in India: Aryanism and Environmentalism,” Workshop on Race, Ethnicity, and Migration, Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society.

2016. “Ethics and International Students.” Hutton Honors College Ethics for Breakfast, Indiana University.

2015. “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian American Studies.” Asian American Studies, Indiana University.

2015. “Building and Burning Bridges: South Asian Diasporas and Nation-States.” The Center for the Study of Global Change’s Global Studies Positioning Series, Indiana University.

2015. “Writing the Earth, Dividing the World: Geography and the Emergence of South Asian Area Studies.” Dhar India Studies Program, Indiana University.

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED 2018. “Visual and Material Cultures in Global Perspective,” Annual Cultural Studies Symposium, Indiana University, co-organizer with Olimpia Rosenthal (Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University).

2018. “Transformations,” Critical Ethnic Studies Symposium, Indiana University.

2016. Race, Place, and Capital Workshop, The Ohio State University, co-organizer with Ines Valdez (, The Ohio State University).

2015. Race, Place & Capital in Postcolonial Studies: An Interdisciplinary Tricontinental Symposium. Indiana University, organizer.

2015. In the Shadow of Selma Symposium, British Association of American Studies. Northumbria University, co-organizer with Henry Knight Lozano and Joe Street (History, Northumbria University).

SESSIONS AND PANELS: ORGANIZED, MODERATED, RESPONDENT 2017. “Geographies of South Asian Migrations to the United States,” co-organizer with Christabel Devadoss, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

2017. Rising Up: South Asian, Arab, Muslim, and Sikh Communities in Post-9/11 America, Moderator. Indiana University, Asian American Studies Program.

2017. Symposium on Sustainable Development. Impacts of Migration, Moderator. Indiana University, School of Global and International Studies.

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2016. Hot Topics: Immigration, Identity, and Inclusion Panel Discussion, Panelist. Indiana University, Maurer School of Law.

2016. Bringing it Home: Race in South Asia Roundtable. Indiana University Indian and Pakistani Student Association.

2016. Why are we (t)here? Radical challenges to privilege and presence in North-South encounter. Discussant, American Association of Geographers, San Francisco.

2016. “What is to be Done About ?” Panelist, American Association of Geographers Conference, San Francisco.

2016. “It's called a life: Moving beyond work-life balance to achieve more care-full universities.” Panelist, American Association of American Geographers Conference, San Francisco.

2015. Ethnography and Critical Human Geography. 2 Panels, co-organizer with Alison Mountz and panelist. Association of the American Geographers Annual Meeting. Chicago, organizer and panelist.

2015. “Why Ferguson Matters to Asian America,” Asian American Studies Program, Indiana University, panelist.

2013. “Triangulating Empires: the precarious place of South Asians in Asian America,” Association of Asian American Studies Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.

2012. “Feminists Taking up Space,” participant in panel Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

2009. “Sovereign Power, Everyday Life, and the non-citizen,’” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.

2006. “Contested Spaces, Political Spaces: Scale, Migration, and Justice,”

MEMBERSHIPS American Association of Geographers American Geographical Society American Studies Association Association of Asian American Studies Association of Canadian Geographers Royal Geographic Society

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TEACHING Courses Taught Indiana University, Department of Geography Urban Geography (GEOG 314) Fall 2019 (32 enrolled) Fall 2018 (22 enrolled) Fall 2017 (28 enrolled) Spring 2016 (15 enrolled)

Political Geography (GEOG 313) Spring 2020 (36 enrolled) Fall 2016 (12 enrolled)

Regions of the World (GEOG 120) Fall 2015 (27 enrolled)

Migration and Mobility (GEOG 441/520) Fall 2017 (9 enrolled) Fall 2015 (12 enrolled)

Qualitative Methods (GEOG 388/588) Fall 2018 (10 enrolled) Spring 2017 (12 enrolled) Spring 2015 (6 enrolled)

Advanced Urban Geography (GEOG 415/515) Spring 2020 (13 enrolled) Fall 2016 (16 enrolled) Fall 2014 (9 enrolled)

Cultural Geography (GEOG 380) Fall 2014 (12 enrolled)

Advanced Topics in Social and Historical Studies for American Studies (AMST 399): Fall 2019 (1 enrolled)

Readings Courses and Independent Studies G830, Fall 2015: Graduate Readings in Geography (Postcolonial Geographies) G830, Spring 2016: Graduate Readings in Geography (Critical Urban Geography) X490, Fall 2016: Immigration Independent Study G499, Spring 2017: Honors Research in Geography G850, Fall 2017: Master’s Thesis Supervision G830, Graduate Readings in Geography (Race and Migration) G840, Spring 2018: Research in Geography G850, Spring 2018: Master’s Thesis Supervision

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G830, Spring 2019: Graduate Readings in Geography (Mobilities and South Asia) X490, Fall 2019: Undergraduate Independent Study G840, Fall 2019: Research in Geography G840, Spring 2020: Research in Geography

Northumbria University, Department of Social Sciences Homeland Insecurities: the politics of fear in American Political Culture (PS 629), Spring 2014

Cities, Cinema, and the Urban Experience (SO 727), Spring 2014

Contemporary America (AM 402), Spring 2014

Introduction to Political Thought (PS 400), Fall-Spring 2012-13, Fall-Spring 2013-14

Contemporary Social Theory (SO 700), Fall-Spring 2012-13.

Contemporary Issues in Social Sciences (PS 410), Fall-Spring 2012-13.

The Ohio State University, Department of Geography Nationalism and the Geographies of Diaspora (graduate seminar, 10 enrolled)

Syracuse University (Geo 372), Fall 2007, Fall 2009.

Teaching Assistantships at Syracuse University: Department of Geography: Human Geography (Geo 171), Spring 2007, Dr. Tod Rutherford Human Geography (Geo 171), Fall 2006, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Dr. Jamie Winders

DOCTORAL SUPERVISION Jordan Lynton, PhD co-supervisor (with Marvin Sterling), “China in the Postcolonial Caribbean,” Department of Anthropology, Indiana University

Sharif Wahab, PhD Supervisor, “The Rohingya Crisis and the Camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh,” Department of Geography, Indiana University

Lydia Lahey Zakel, “Palestinian Returns and the Remaking of Home” PhD Supervisor, Department of Geography, Indiana University

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DOCTORAL COMMITTEES Abdul Aijaz, PhD Committee Member, Departments of English and Geography, Indiana University, “Ontic Flows: Rivers in the Making of Modern Punjab”

Megan Betz, “Analyzing the Concept of ‘Community’ in Community Orchards of the U.S., PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University

Beth Ciaravolo, PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University, “The Symbolic City: Cultural Meaning and Social Progress in the Urban Landscape of L’viv, Ukraine” (graduated December 2018).

Dan Johnston, PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University (2014-2018).

Natasha Sharma, ‘Dark tourism in India: rituals and representation of death,’ PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University (completed December 2017).

MA SUPERVISION Zawadi Rowe, “Kenya’s Diaspora Strategies,” MA Supervisor, Department of Geography, Indiana University (graduated Spring 2018).

Drew Heidersheidt, “Redistricting and Place-Making in Bloomington,” Department of Geography, Indiana University

EXTERNAL GRADUATE COMMITTEE MEMBER Christabel Devadoss, PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, University of West Virginia (completed September 2018)

MA COMMITTEE AND/OR QUALIFYING EXAMINATION COMMITTEE MEMBER Abdul Aijaz, PhD Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University

Carmen Antreasian, “Lacan en pointe: A psychoanalytic analysis of the ballerina” MA Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University (completed August 2016).

Megan Betz, Department of Geography, Indiana University

Beth Ciaravolo, Department of Geography, Indiana University

Dan Johnston, Department of Geography, Indiana University

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Steve Volan, “Gownsburg: The Campus as a Municipal Phenomenon,” MA Committee Member, Department of Geography, Indiana University (completed January 2019).

UNDERGRADUATE SUPERVISION Christopher Meulbroek, Senior Thesis advisor, “Flying Over People: Political Geographies of Airport Infrastructure in the Global Age,” Department of Geography, Indiana University (graduated Spring 2016, currently a graduate student in Geography at University of British Columbia).

Abby Hseih McIntosh, undergraduate mentor (through CRESS undergraduate mentorship project)

Katherine Knapp, “Rabat’s urban development: Reproducing France’s colonizing project in post-colonial Morocco,” International Studies, thesis advisor.

SERVICE Department of Geography: Job Search Committee (Spring 2019) Faculty Advisor, Geography Club (2014-2016) Committee for undergraduate engagement Ad-hoc committee on geography graduate program (2019-2020) Committee on redesign of undergraduate geography concentration, Cities, Development, and Justice (2018-2020) Weekly Colloquium Series Organizer (2017-present, with Natasha Macbean)

University Service: Indiana University: Themester Student Panel Organizer (for James Timberlake), Spring 2020. Dhar India Studies Program, Executive Committee, elected committee, 2017-2019. Asian American Studies, Politics, Promises, Possibilities: The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act at 50. Chair of Civil Liberties & Migrant Communities After 9/11, 2015 Asian American Studies Planning Committee, 2015-16 Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society Post-doctoral Fellowship Selection Committee, 2015 Dhar India Studies and Mathers Museum, Organizer, Speaker Series for Beyond Bollywood: Indian Americans Shape the Nation, 2015-16. Fulbright Student Program, internal reviewer, 2015 William T. Patten Foundation, Nominator, 2015 Themester Course Development (Mobility, Geog 441/520), Fall 2015 Reconfiguring Global Space: The Geography, Politics, and Ethics of Drone War, Discussant, 2015. Emerging Areas of Research Grant member, ‘Infrastructures of Forced Migration’, submitted 2017 (not awarded)

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Campus Service: Residential Services Program, Pizza with a Professor Hutton Honors College, invited speaker

Faculty Governance Committee Member, Bloomington Faculty Council Diversity and Affirmative Action Committee (2016-2018)

Disciplinary Service: Referee Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers Annals of the Association of American Geographers The Professional Geographer Urban Geography South Asian Diaspora Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Journal of Cultural Geography Journal of Historical Geography Geographical Review Geographical Journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space Human Geography Geopolitics Social Identities Social Science and Humanities Research Council Insight Applications National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Third World Quarterly Progress in Human Geography Graduate Students Affinity Group, Association of the American Geographers

Editorial and Advisory Boards Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space South Asian American Digital Archive American Association of Geographers, Cultural Geography Specialty Group Student Paper Competition, Judge

Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK: Centre for International Development Diaspora and Migration Research Network A-Level Conference Organizer and Presenter

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Migration and Diaspora South Asia Race/Ethnicity Urban Geography Political Geography Cultural Geography

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Qualitative Methods Postcolonial Studies

LANGUAGE Spoken Hindi, fluent

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