Research porfolio

identity development x structural domination

One part of my research asks how people’s identities form when they are moving through different types of social hierarchies – in educational workplaces and society.

in educational workplaces

Negotiating Utopia: An Affective, Autoethnographic Framework for Reflexivity. Sociological Perspectives (2025)
CAUSing a Commotion: Reflections on Third Space Academic Labor. Workplace: A Journal for Academic Labor (2023)
Caste Maneuvers Under Colonialism. Book Forum: Indians on Indian Lands: Intersections of Race, Caste, and Indigeneity (Upadhyay). Sikh Research Journal (2025)
Utopian Methods and Du Boisian Reflexivity: Theorizing Researcher Subjectivity Formation Through Relationality. The Du Boisian Challenge (2027)

In society

Epistemic Wounded Attachments: Recovering Definitional Subjectivity through Colonial Libraries. History and Theory (2023)
Sikhs as Implicated Subjects in the United States: A Reflective Essay (ਵਿਚਾਰ) on Gurmat-Based Interventions in the Movement for Black Lives. Sikh Research Journal (2020)
Manifesting Queer Joy, the Sikh LGBTQIA+ Oral History Archive. Queer Joy in Theory and Practice (2027)

cultural change x structural domination

A second part of my research asks how people and organizations respond when organizational hierarchies and cultural norms that dominate in an organization are being changed or transformed.

When Affirmative Action Disappears: Unexpected Patterns in Student Enrollments at Selective U.S. Institutions, 1990-2016. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2021)
Labor and Status in the Color Line of US Higher Education. 2023. Special Review Symposium of Higher Education: Doing the Right Thing (Gasman), Broke (Hamilton and Nielsen), Point of Reckoning (Segal). Sociology of Race and Ethnicity (2023)
Chapter 15: Diversity. University Keywords. (2025)
Critical Sociology of Knowledge. Oxford Bibliographies. (2021/2019)
Organizational Pathways, and Student Engagement: Deepening Student Engagement and the Benefit-Use Paradox in Formal Engagement Spaces. Journal of Community Engagement in Higher Education (2020)
Social Innovation and Civic Engagement: A Critical Praxis for Engagement in Higher Education. The Civic Mission of Higher Education: Connecting Social Innovation and Civic Engagement (2020)