Education

2024  Ph.D., Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Dissertation: The Counter-Conduct of Labor: How Indian Tech Workers Organize in 

India and the US

Committee: Manisha Desai (Chair), Mary Bernstein, Andrew Deener, David Embrick and Bandana Purkayastha 

        Graduate Certificates

• 2023  Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies 
• 2024 Human Rights

2021 M.A., Sociology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Thesis title: Privilege, Precarity and Pandemic: Indian Tech Unions’ Online Activism in Hyperdigital Times 

Committee: Manisha Desai (Chair), Bandana Purkayastha, Michael Wallace

2019 Ph.D., Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Dissertation title: Social Media Surveillance in Digital Capitalism and the Rise of Networked States: A Study of Digital Labor, Privacy, Security and Identity

Advisor: Nilanjana Gupta

2011 M.Phil., English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

Thesis title: The Culture of Conflict: User Freedom and Administrative Control in Social Networking Sites

Advisor: Nilanjana Gupta

2008 M.A., English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India

2006 B.A., English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India