Publications and Presentations
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Co-Written with Avni Sejpal and Sharvari Sastry. “Queer Talk: Desire and Intimacy in South Asia.” In “Queer Asia,” edited by Jungmin Kwon and Shinsuke Eguchi. Special Issue, QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking 10, no.2 (2023): 156-163.
“Crip Life Amidst Debilitation: Medicalization, Survival, and the Bhopal Gas Leak.” In “Origins, Objects, and Orientations: Towards a Racial History of Disability,” edited by Sony Coráñez Bolton, Kelsey Henry, Leon Hilton, and Anna LaQuawn. Special issue, Disability Studies Quarterly 43 (Fall 2023). https://doi.org/10.18061/dsq.v43i1.9653
Winner of the 2023 Nupur Chaudhuri Award for best first article in the field of history in a refereed journal awarded by the Coordinating Council of Women in History.
“Paranoid Breathing, Reparative Feeling, and Ambivalent Beginning, Or, I’m So Paranoid, I Think Your Covid Test Is About Me.” In “Crip Pandemic Life,” edited by Theodora Danylevich and Alyson Patsavas. Special issue, Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association 11 (Fall 2022). https://doi.org/10.25158/L11.2.13
Other Publications
“Making the Scientific Social, and the Social Scientific – A Review of Durba Mitra’s Indian Sex Life.” History of Anthropology Review 46 (2022). https://histanthro.org/reviews/indian-sex-life
"#CripCOVID19Syllabus." Self-published. Featured and linked on H-Net: https://networks.h-net.org/node/4189/discussions/7838294/cripcovid19syllabus.
“In Search of Community and Pedagogy: Compiling a Crip COVID-19 Syllabus.” Visualizing the Virus Digital Humanities Project, July 7, 2022: https://visualizingthevirus.com/entry/in-search-of-community-and-pedagogy/
Invited Talks and Podcast Episodes
2024. “Disability in the Geopolitical Global South,” speaker on a roundtable with Ankita Mishra and Vishnu K.K. Nair, at the Disability Matters symposium at the University of Sheffield (virtual).
2024. “Queer Indian Scholar Speaks Out Against U.S. Corporate Crime in Bhopal,” featured in Out.FM – a multiracial, progressive, LGBT public affairs and culture show, WBAI 99.5FM.
2024. “Disability as Geopolitics: India, the UN, and Transnational Welfare.” Invited to the Commission on Science, Technology, and Diplomacy Seminar as awardee of the 2024 Awardee of the STAND Early Career Prize recognizing outstanding papers addressing the history of science, technology and medicine in their international contexts (virtual).
2024. “Massification, Debility, and 40 Years of Crisis in Bhopal w/ Jiya Pandya (05/16/24),” in Death Panel by Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Jules Gill-Peterson. https://www.deathpanel.net/transcripts/bhopal-jiya-pandya
2024. “Disability History as Concept History.” Lecture for the REACH Equal Opportunity Cell and Ijtihad Journal of History at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi (virtual).
2023. “Crip Ambivalence.” Invited as part of the Lateral plenary at the Cultural Studies Association Conference (virtual).
2022. “Queer Theories” with Alexis Ferguson and Kate Manlik, featured in the En-Gender Conversations Podcast by Jessica Albrecht and Leandro Wallace. https://engenderacademia.wordpress.com/2022/10/06/2-5-en-gender-conversations-queer-theories/.
2021. “Culture, Community, and Care” with Kim Fernandes, featured in the Disability Crosses Borders podcast by Aine Kelly-Costello. https://disabilitycrossesborders.com/2021/11/21/culture-community-and-care-with-jiya-pandya-and-kim-fernandes/.
Conference Presentations
2024 “Provincializing Disability Studies: A Transnational Revisionist History.” Presented at the American Studies Association Conference (Baltimore); winner of the Critical Disability Studies Caucus Graduate Student Paper Award.
2024. “Anti-National Weakness: Exercise and Ableism in Postcolonial India.” Presented at Harvard University’s South Asia Studies Colloquium (Cambridge).
2024. Moderator and speaker at a roundtable on “Bhopal and Beyond: 40 Years of Struggle Since the World’s Worst Industrial Disaster” at the Haymarket Socialism Conference (Chicago).
2023. “Re-reading Kinship and Refusal in Indian Leprosy Archives." Presented at the National Women's Studies Association Conference (Baltimore).
2023. Organizer and moderator of roundtable on “Reading and Writing Disability in South Asia” at the Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison, Wisconsin).
2023. “Unclean Minds and Moral Lepers: Examining Rhetorics of Service and Morality in Gandhian Welfare.” Part of a double session on “For the Body Politic, Of the Body Politic,” organized by Jiya Pandya, Kim Fernandes, and Koyna Tomar. Presented at the Annual Conference on South Asia (Madison, Wisconsin).
2023. “Crip Ambivalence.” Invited as part of the Lateral plenary at the Cultural Studies Association Conference (virtual).
2022. “Prosthetics, Petitions, and Paisa: Reading Transnational Disability Management Through the UN IYDP.” Presented at Humboldt University's Unsettling Archives Conference (Berlin).
2021. “Living Through History: Reproductive Disability in Archives of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy.” Presented at the Princeton-Humboldt Partnership’s Re-Mapping Memory: Possibilities of Postcolonial and Anti-Racist (Counter Archiving) Conference (virtual).
2020. “Yielded Bodies: Cripping Medical Research on the 1984 Bhopal Gas Tragedy.” Presented at School of Oriental and African Studies and King’s College Criposium (virtual).
2019. “Speaking Their Truths: College Policy-Making, Community Attitudes, and Sexual Harassment at Middlebury College (1983-1989).” Presented at Princeton Law Engaged Graduate Student Seminar (Princeton).
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