I am a PhD Candidate of Sociology with a Collaborative Specialization in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. My research lies at the intersection of comparative and historical sociology, feminist political economy, and postcolonial studies. I employ historical methods to critically examine the relationship between gender, the colonial state, and anticolonial movements, and I am particularly interested in examining formerly overlooked ways through which women were denied land ownership under colonial rule.

My dissertation unravels previously unrecognized processes through which gendered relations of property were reproduced through the consolidation of colonial state power during the First World War in British India. Drawing on formerly unseen archival data collected in Lahore, Islamabad, London, and San Francisco, among other digital repositories, I trace how welfare and state repression during the war were key sites to uphold male property ownership and reveal the lengths that colonial administrators went to protect and reproduce the male landowner while denying women autonomous land ownership in this critical period of interstate warfare and anticolonial activity. In doing so, my work offers new ways to think about the colonial imposition of sexually differentiated property relations and its enduring legacies.

My work has been published in Political Power and Social Theoryand the Journal of World-Systems Research and has won awards from the American Sociological Association Marxist Section, Canadian Sociological Association Comparative and Historical Research Cluster, and the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto. My research has been supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Ontario Government (OGS), University of Toronto Munk School of Global Affairs Center for South Asian Studies, and the University of Toronto School of Graduate Studies, along with internal fellowships and grants.