Education:

BA, Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas)

MA, Boston College (Boston, MA)

Fellowships:

• BC Dissertation Writing Grant 2012-2013
• Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship, 2010-2011
• Summer Research Stipend, Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy at Boston College, 2010 and 2012
  
• Boston College Graduate History Department Summer Fellowship, 2010
• American Institute for Indian Studies Language Fellow 2009-2010
• University Fellowship, Boston College 2006-2011

Conferences:

March 2013
"Representing Shivaji: Caste, Religion and Controversy over Marathi Films in the 1930s," Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, San Diego, California

October 2012
“From the Streets to the Screen: Tamasha and Social Reform in Marathi Cinema,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, Wisconsin

March 2012
“Films in the Archive: The Swarajya Seemevar Controversy of 1937,” South and Central Asia Fulbright Conference, Cochin, India

February 2012
“Acharya Atre’s Shyamchi Aai: Motherhood, Nationalism and Regionalism in a Marathi Film,” An International Conference on A ‘Definitive Decade’: India in the 1950s, National Archives of India, New Delhi, India

April 2011
“Visions of the Past: Reflections on Marathi Films in Independent India, 1947-1980,” New England Historical Association Conference, Worcester, Massachusetts
 
February 2011
“Through the Camera Lens: Exploring Marathi Identity through Film,” Texas Asia Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas

October 2008
“Bombay Divided: New Perspectives on Partition and Urban Change,” Texas Asia Conference, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
 
March 2007
“Ladies in Red: Women, Communism and Labor Unions in Early Twentieth Century Bombay,” Eighth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women’s and Gender History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
 
February 2007
“Cyclical Memory: The Shaping of Memory and Identity through the ‘Saffronization’ of Textbooks in India,” Transgressing Boundaries: Interdisciplinary Dialogues, 19th Annual Stony Brook University Graduate English Conference, New York City, New York