Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. Dissertation title: “The Art of Governing Well: Freedom and the Practice of Government in Modern India”

Master of Arts, Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago. Thesis title: “The Government of Interest(s): Liberal Governmentality and Subjectivation”

Bachelor of Science with honors, Department of Economics, Purdue University (West Lafayette). Thesis title: “A Brief Analysis of Wage Distribution Skewness, Unemployment, and Job Openings”

Select Awards and Honors

The Society for Business Ethics, Founders’ Award for Emerging Scholars (2018)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for the Humanities, Resident Graduate Student Fellow (2017-2018)

University of Illinois at Chicago, The Graduate College, Chancellor’s Graduate Research Award (2016-2017)

University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Political Science, Milton Rakove Memorial Award for Best Research (2016)

Select Conferences and Workshops

Conferences

  • “Planning the City of the Future in Modern India” presented in ‘Political Economy’ at the Western Political Science Association Conference (2022)

  • “From Planned Development to Unplanned Planning: The Rise of Market Research in Modern India” presented at the Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting (2018)

  • “The Nation Must be Created: Liberalism and Individual Freedom in Post-Independence India” presented at the Comparative Historical Social Sciences Conference at Northwestern University (2018)

  • “Non-domination as Max-choice: Late-twentieth Century Neo-Romanism’s Debt to Neoliberalism” presented in ‘Freedom, Liberalism, and Democracy’ at the Western Political Science Association Conference (2018)

  • “Governing Youth: Individual Freedom and the Practice of Youth Development in Modern India” presented at the 5th Biennial Texas Asia Conference organized and hosted by the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin (2017)

Workshops

  • “Governing Youth: Individual Freedom and the Discourses of Youth Development in Modern India” presented at the inaugural session of the Interdisciplinary Dissertation Writing Workshop organized and hosted by the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Illinois at Chicago (2017)

  • “Freedom and Modern Practices of Governing” presented at the Advanced Graduate Workshop on Poverty, Development, and Globalization in Bangalore, India, organized by the Institute for New Economic Thinking, the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and Azim Premji University (2016)