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 migration, mobility, urban studies, and the politics of belonging. My book New Lives in Anand: Building a Muslim Hub in Western India (University of Washington Press, 2022) is a multi-sited ethnography of urban development, segregation, and mobility based on research among Gujarati Indian Muslims in India, the UK and the USA.

Visual and multimodal 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.