I am a historian of Modern Imperial Britain, and I research migration, citizenship, and the welfare state in the twentieth century. My book on how the welfare state shaped British multiculturalism will be published by Oxford University Press. I have published book chapters on and . I also wrote for The Journal of British Studies and co-edited a thematic issue of Twentieth Century British History on . My essay for the collection examined in order to consider the position of South Asians in British racial formation.
University Press. I have also written about as well as on . My first children's book, , was published by Quarto Books in October, 2023.
I received my PhD in 2013 from the University of California, Berkeley, and I joined the Reed faculty in 2014. At Reed, I offer courses in British, Imperial, and twentieth century history, I teach in the college’s interdisciplinary Humanities Program, and I chair the program in Comparative Race and Ethnicity Studies.