Current Research

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My dissertation explores the experiences of middle- and upper-middle-class women navigating family disputes in New Delhi, India. Over 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2021–2022), I conducted in-depth observations in legal offices, courtrooms, and mediation centers; interviewed 55 participants; and analyzed case documents and judicial rulings through archival research. This qualitative study examines the familial and legal processes that contribute to gendered dispossession at various stages of these disputes, offering a nuanced understanding of how institutional and relational dynamics shape women’s access to wealth and justice.

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PUBLICATIONS:

Invisible Money and Gendered Dispossession: Relational Work in Matrimonial Disputes in India (Forth. Social Problems) examines the meaning and role of women's money in matrimonial disputes highlighting the gendered and temporal nature of relational work. I argue that women's money— like women's labor is also rendered invisible. This article is the recipient of the SSSP Gender Division Best Student Paper Award and has also received an honorable mention for the ASA Sex and Gender Section Sally Hacker Graduate Student Paper Award.

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Gendered Wealth and the Challenges of Child Support in India (Forth. Socio-Economic Review) examines the challenges embedded in the legal processes of securing child support in India. Drawing from a qualitative study of family disputes, I reveal how gendered institutional practices shape child support negotiations often to the detriment of women.

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