Teaching and Advising

Please see Sikh Studies at UCI for more information.

Current Courses at UCI:

Graduate:

Anth 289 “Interrogating Citizenship”

Anth 289 “Anthropologies of Race, Religion and Caste”

Undergraduate:

Anth 60/Rel 60 “Global Themes in Sikh Studies”

Anth H190A “Anthropology Honors Research Design”

Anth 100A “Ethnographic and Anthropological Methods”

Previous Courses Taught:

UC Merced, Graduate Courses in Interdisciplinary Humanities Program:

“Feminist Theories: Traditions, Critiques, Practices”

UC Merced, Undergraduate Courses:

“History of Anthropological Theory”; “Ethnographic Methods”; “Anthropology of Citizenship”

Makerere University, Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) Graduate Courses:

“Culture and Theory”; “Gender in History: Gender and Feminist Theory in Africa”; “Africa Before Western Hegemony”

Advising:

Graduate Students/Dissertation Chair:

1.) Tawfiq Alhamedi, Ph.D. Student, Anthropology, UC Irvine.

2.) Amrit Deol, Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, UC Merced. “Makings of a Mutiny: Ghadri Poetry and Interrogations of Subjugated Knowledges in History.”

Graduate Students/Dissertation Committee:

1.) Dorie Perez, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, UC Merced. Dissertation Title: “Saving this Place: An Ethnographic Analysis of Space and Place in California’s Central Valley.” Defended March 8^th, 2019.

2.) Tavleen Kaur, Ph.D., Visual Studies, UC Irvine. Dissertation Title: “Sikh Diasporic Necropolitics: Critical Visual Geographies of Hate and State Violence.” Defended, August 2nd, 2019.

3.) Jamin Shih, Ph.D., Interdisciplinary Humanities Program, UC Merced. Dissertation Title: “Ku-Mo: Popular Culture and the Impossible Sovereignty of Taiwan.” Defended, May 1st, 2020.

4.) Nima Yolmo, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, UC Irvine.

5.) Farah Quereshi, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, UC Irvine.

6.) Misbah Hyder, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UC Irvine.

7.) Muneira Hoballah, Ph.D. Student, Anthropology, UC Irvine.

8.) Tarek Moustafa Mohamed, Ph.D. Student, Anthropology, UC Irvine.

9.) Aziz Sohail, MFA Candidate, UC Irvine.

Undergraduate Students:

UC Merced:

1.) Gabrielle Cabrera, Anthropology B.A. Student, UC Merced. Anthropology Senior Thesis: “Undocumented Critiques: Resisting Docility in the Neoliberal University”

*Cabrera accepted admission to Rutgers University Anthropology Ph.D. Program in Fall 2017.

Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC) Program:

1.) Jessica Calderon, B.A. Student, Anthropology Major

2.) Santana Juache, B.A. Student, Anthropology Major

Other Advising: