Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology, University of Muenster

BA WiSe 2015/16: (Seminar: Anthropology of Decision-making)
MA WiSe 2015/16 (Seminar: Media Anthropology in South Asia: Marriage Practices in India)
BA SuSe 2015 (Seminar: Anthropology of Diaspora and Migration)

Mediating Modernities: Indian Women's Narratives of Marriages, delivered the S. Gambhir Memorial Lecture at the Department of History,​ ​S.N.D.T. Women's University, Mumbai​.

07/2016

Framing Matrimonial Decision-Making: Methodological queries, in the Workshop “Marriage, Law and the State in India” at the Institute of Ethnology as part of the SFB 1150 project A-06.

11/2015

Mobile Trajectory of the Ramkatha: Diasporic Practices in a Comparative Context, in the session "Global Processes and Diasporic Experience", at the 'International Conference on Ramlila and Ramkatha Manchan' under the theme 'Epic Processes: Mobility, Patronage and Aesthetics', at the Indira Gandhi National Centre of Arts, New Delhi.

09/2015

Negotiating Hindutva: Narratives of Crisis , paper presented in the panel "Perception of Crises in South Asia: Processes of Negotiation in Decision Making", at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV) Conference at the Philipps University Marburg

08/2015

Voice as Media: From Sound to Body Effect, paper presented in the session "Religions and Media: Performances", at the XXI World Congress of the International Association for the History of Religions, University of Erfurt

04/2015

Mapping The Ramkatha Soundscape: An Empirical Study, paper presented at the Workshop on Mediality 'Voices from Beyond' held as part of the field of research Secularization and Sacralization of Media at the Excellence Cluster 'Religion and Politics', University of Muenster.

02/2015

Staging Of The Ramkatha: The Role of Performance, paper presented at the Winter School - Exzellenzcluster ' Religion und Politik' (EXC) in cooperation with the 'Zentrum für Religion, Wirtschaft und Politik' (ZRWP) in interdisziplinärer Perspektive - Methoden und Themen at Collegium Helveticum, University of Zurich

09/2014

'Mediating Performance Through The Senses: A Case Study Of Morari Bapu's Ramkatha', paper presented at the Seminar of the Gujarat Research Network (Europe), organised by the Provincial Globalisation Research Programme, at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of Amsterdam

1995

Co-founded “Rajtarangini” a cultural association at the Ruia College, Department Of History, University of Mumbai.

1994

Co-organized a workshop on Numismatics in collaboration with the R.G. Bhandarkar Institute, Pune.

1993

Co-organized a workshop “Society and Religion in British India”, Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture, Mumbai

2014

(July-Aug) Ethnographic fieldwork in Rome, Italy

2013

(Jun- July) Ethnographic fieldwork in Bakersfield, USA

2012 - 2014

7 Months of intermittent field work in Western India mostly in Gujarat and Mumbai

1998

Aided a field study conducted by Centre for Global Studies, Mumbai on Minimum Credible Deterrence and India’s Nuclear Security.

1996

Conducted field study on the Relevance of Gandhian values in Modern Indian society in Mumbai.