I am a political geographer and ethnographer of geopolitical spaces with a regional focus on Global Asia, particularly across the connected geographies of India, China, and Burma/Myanmar. 

I am currently a senior lecturer and researcher at the Department of Geography at the University of Zurich where I convene the MA module in Political Geography and advise graduate students. I am an editor for Geopolitics having previously served as the journal's review and forum editor. As an editor, I am broadly interested in global critical debates and methodologies on borders, indigenity, mobility, surveillance, security and geographical/geopolitical imaginations; as well as extractive spaces and resource frontiers. 

I am also part of the editorial collective for Tea Circle which publishes perspectives on and from Myanmar/Burma. I am currently co-editing the forthcoming Handbook of South Asian Borders with Oxford University Press (OUP). I previously did my doctoral research and am currently also a (non-residential) Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.

My ongoing publications build on my doctoral research and fieldwork on Myanmar's borders with Northeast India and China -- where I have explored how borderlands are not only spaces of extreme violence for those who live or cross them, but also particularly ripe spaces for resource, labour, digital, urban, and ecological extractions and exploitative capitalism.  My doctoral dissertation and ongling book project "Seeing Like A Border: Resource Frontiers, Voices and Visions on Myanmar’s Borderlands with India and China" was awarded the Wang Gungwu Gold Medal from the National University of Singapore in 2022. 

I was born and brought up in Northeast India (Assam) and speak several (mostly Asian) languages including Mandarin Chinese. I have lived and worked in New Delhi, Beijing, Kunming, Taipei, Myitkyina, Aizawl, Yangon, and Singapore before moving to Zurich. I enjoy traveling, photography, reading fiction, jamming with blues & rock bands, and consuming unhealthy doses of Asian cringe cinema (and food!) 

Feel free to get in touch with any inquiries, mutual interests, and collaborations.