Education

2024  Ph.D., Sociology, University of Connecticut, US

Dissertation title: 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 

2021 M.A., Sociology, University of Connecticut

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

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

Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut

2019 Ph.D., Media, Communication and Culture, Jadavpur University, 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, Department of English, Jadavpur University

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

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

Advisor: Nilanjana Gupta, Department of English, Jadavpur University 

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

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

Graduate Certificates (at the University of Connecticut)

2023  Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Connecticut 

2024 Human Rights, University of Connecticut