Biography

I am interested in questions of belonging and marginality, particularly with regards to those who exist within, and help define, the periphery of the nation-state. My current research examines the long-term sociopolitical impacts of Hindu mob violence targeting Muslims in India, which implicates questions of Indian secularism, citizenship, and national identity. I studied moral and legal philosophy at Princeton University; my senior thesis examined the nature of our obligations to obey the law. Throughout my undergraduate years, I also worked as a freelance reporter across West, South, and East Asia, covering everything from the aftermath of the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement to the Armenian diaspora in East Jerusalem. At the University of Cambridge, I hope to draw upon my experiences as both a philosophy student and a journalist to inform my historical and ethnographic research in the MPhil program in Modern South Asian Studies.

Previous Education

Princeton University Philosophy