Social anthropology: My current research focuses on urban cycling and is interested in how anthropological approaches to knowledge can support sustainable city-making. Earlier projects explored topics of mobility and migration, urban studies, media studies, and the politics of belonging. My book New Lives in Anand (University of Washington Press, 2022) is based on ethnographic research with Gujarati Indian Muslims in India, the UK and the USA, earlier I conducted research with other Indian diaspora groups.

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 lead the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab, which supports multimodal approaches in research and teaching.

I am associate professor in Social and Cultural Anthropology with a focus on Visual Anthropology at the University of Vienna, and head of the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab. I was assistant professor at the University of Vienna from 2020 to 2024. Previously I held postdoctoral positions at the University of Tuebingen, Leiden University and 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).

Photo credits: portrait by Viktoria Paar, research photo by Sherhen Grace C. Torrecampo. Photographed: Angela C. Gido, Sanderien Verstappen, John Lester B. Sila, and Wincel E. Gordoncillo.