About

Professionally, I’m a scholar-practitioner working at the intersection of documentary film, digital humanities, and critical archival studies, centered on Indigenous media sovereignty. Over the past decade I’ve built long-term collaborations with rural and Indigenous communities across Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh — including as a team member at Akhra, Ranchi, a grassroots media collective — using participatory filmmaking to challenge dominant narratives about Adivasi life. My work has been recognized with an Emerging Scholar Award and presented at venues including the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Image Conference, and CISA at UCLA, which I’ve also helped organize. You can find my published work on Google Scholar.

Outside the classroom and the archive, I’m just as likely to be found on a trail, behind the wheel on a long drive, or several hundred feet underground — caving is a strange, wonderful hobby I’ve picked up along the way. I’m also a fairly obsessive photographer and a bit of a tech tinkerer, which probably explains why half my fieldwork ends up documented on camera and the other half turns into some new gadget-fueled workflow.

This site is organized around that same range: Research and Teaching cover my academic work, Writing & Talks collects my publications and presentations, Digital Humanities gathers my archival and digital projects, and Film & Media holds my films, with photographs, a blog, and a podcast to come. Feel free to poke around, or just say hello.