Social anthropology: My current research focuses on urban cycling, and is interested in how anthropological approaches to knowledge can support sustainable city-making. My earlier research explored transnational migration, rural-urban linkages, urban development, and the politics of belonging. My book New Lives in Anand (University of Washington Press, 2022) is a multi-sited ethnography based on research in India, the UK and the USA. It describes how residential segregation in an Indian town is paired with distinctive practices of mobility that embed the residents in a variety of social networks.

Visual anthropology: I use filmmaking as a research method and as a means of communicating with varied audiences, including the research participants themselves. At the University of Vienna I direct the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab, which supports multimodal approaches in research and teaching.

I am assistant professor with tenure track in Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Visual Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and the founding director of the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab. Previously I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tuebingen, Leiden University and the International Institute for Asian Studies and conducted doctoral research as part of the NWO/WOTRO-funded project 'Provincial Globalisation' at the University of Amsterdam (AISSR) and the National Institute of Advanced Studies in Bangalore (NIAS).