I am a historical anthropologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto. I am also a founding member of Jamhoor, a movement-oriented Left magazine on South Asia and its diasporas. My research and teaching focuses on critical and revolutionary theory, decolonization, and political economy, especially in South Asia and the global South.

My first book, Theory from the Trenches (Duke University Press, forthcoming), explores how subaltern actors — specifically peasants in Pakistan — creatively reinvented revolutionary theory in pursuit of a worldly, even other-worldly, liberation.

Amidst resurgent fascism, my second book project turns to its radical other: communism. Provisionally titled Why Marx Was Not White, the book is a comparative-historical study of how subalterns, from Peru to the Philippines, embraced, remade, and re-envisioned Marxism and communism: a political theory historically unrivaled in its global reach.

My research has been published in several journals, while my public writing has appeared in venues like The Guardian and Boston Review.

I completed my graduate training at the University of Toronto and the University of Oxford, and have held fellowships at Princeton and Yale.