Research Interests: Semiotics, Linguistic ethnography, Script and writing systems, Language and politics, Aesthetics of language, Adivasi societies and history, Gujarat, Jharkhand/West Bengal border regions
Education:
BA: University of Chicago, 2004
MA: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2009
PhD: University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, 2014
Selected Publications:
Graphic Politics in Eastern India: Script and the Quest for Autonomy, Bloomsbury Academic (2021).
Nathan Badenoch and Nishaant Choksi, eds. Expressives in the South Asian Linguistic Area, Brill (2020).
Expressives and the multimodal depiction of social types in Mundari. Language and Society 49(3). (2020).
From language to script: graphic practice and the politics of authority in Santali language media, eastern India. Modern Asian Studies 51(5). (2017).
Surface politics: scaling multiscriptality in an Indian village market. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 25(1): 1-24. (2015).
Work Experience:
Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (July 2018 to present)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyoto University/Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (2016 – 2018)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Tokyo University/JSPS (2014 – 2015)