intellectual history of religion, politics and modern India, South Asia

geography as history of the present and as earthly/oceanic writing, social theory, political economy, development, agrarian studies, labor, racial/sexual capitalism, Black radical tradition, biopolitical struggle, oceanic studies, photography, South Asia, South Africa, Indian Ocean

political parties, South Asia, electoral politics, politics of India

South Asia, Mughal, early modern, cities, history, Persian

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

agrarian anthropology, ruralism, feminist anthropology, political economy, Comparative Religion, South Asia, debt and capitalism, cinema and media culture, ercstatic experience, embodiment and aestetics, theory of mind, theory of language, theory of subjectivity, caste, structural violence, socio-economic inequality

Islam, development, Africa, social movements, political economy, political ecology, geography, South Asia, peasant societies, social and and cultural theory, U.S. agriculture, Marxian political economy