FACILITATION
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2024-Present, Professor (Assistant), Department of Sociology, Somaiya Vidyavihar
As a teaching faculty with the Department of Sociology, I teach research methods to final year undergraduate students. In partial fulfillment of their degree, they are required to submit a research project which I guide them to do from scratch. Thus far, I have supported close to 300 such projects across my teaching career.
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2023-Present, Resource Person, Indian Association of Women's Studies, University of Ranchi
In my longstanding association with the IAWS, University of Ranchi, I have spoken to undergraduate students on gender, climate, and media - including a one-day workshop on 'Transgender Lives and Media Ecologies' in 2023.
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2021-Present, Resource Person
I facilitate 'Academic Writing and Referencing 101' workshops to undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as to budding researchers. I have facilitated workshops across India including the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and the Council for Global Co-operation.
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2025, Guest Speaker, Somaiya School of Civilisation, Somaiya Vidyavihar
At the Civilisation Seminar, I discussed sex work and the trajectories of urban transformation in Bombay/Mumbai.
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2024-2025, Course co-ordinator, Impact and Policy Research Institute
I co-ordinated the three-month-long Urban Policy and Local Governance Youth Fellowship at the IMPRI Centre for Habitat, Urban, and Regional Studies (CHURS), IMPRI.
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2022, Mentor, Claylab
At Claylab, I helped support the academic journey of a young, marginalised student with weekly 1:1 calls, strategic guidance, and resources.
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2021, Teaching Assistant, Department of Language, Literature, and Aesthetics, Pandit Deendayal Energy University
I taught the module 'Exploration of Literary Forms' to undergraduate students of English Literature in the third semester. I picked the readings, selected the texts to be discussed in class, and helped design the syllabus.
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​2017-2018, Volunteer, Speaking Cafe, Koaceli, Turkey
​I was a volunteer at the Speaking Cafe in Izmit, Turkey, which is a municipal speaking club that partners with local schools to provide a platform for people to practice English by conversing with others in a casual cafe-like setting. ​
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ACADEMIC INSTITUTES/WORKSHOPS
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2024, BREAD-IGC PhD Course on Social Protection, J-PAL South Asia
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2025, From Behistun to Bombay: A Journey Through the World of Cuneiform, Asiatic Society of Mumbai
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2024-2025, In Spirit and Stone: The Art and Life of Fatimid Cairo, Jnanapravaha Mumbai
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2024, Urdu Poetry (ISLA-555), McGill University
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2024, The Digital Everyday, Chinese University in Hong Kong
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2023, Masterclass on Sinking Cities, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
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2023, Reading Neighbourhoods Through Cities, Dr B R Ambedkar University, Delhi
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2022, Workshop on the Global Landscape of ESG
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2022, Disaster Resilient Housing and Built Environment, National Institute of Disaster Management
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2022, Training on Making Indian Cities Disaster and Climate Change Resilient, National Institute of Disaster Management
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2022, Workshop on Applied Econometrics, Christ Univeristy
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2022, Winter School in Econometrics and Data Science, Savitribhai Phule Pune University
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2021, Elementary Urdu, Gujarat Vidyapith
