Recent Publications

• FORTHCOMING Spiritual Ecology of my Bharata Natyam Dance: A Peacebuilder’s Reflections on her guru’s Pedagogies of Crossing, South Asian Dance Intersections (SADI), 2025.

• Forthcoming A Dance History Scholar Reading Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance, Book Review of Ann R. David, Ram Gopal: Interweaving Histories of Indian Dance. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024, 208 pages.Asian Dance Journal 2025. 9. Vol. 78.

• Journal article, The Tale of a Choreographer, her Student, a River, and an Endangered Heritage:  Indu Mitha’s Qaseeda-i-Ilm of Jamal/An Ode to Wisdom and Beauty. South Asian Dance Intersections (SADI), 2024. https://journals.charlotte.edu/sadi/issue/view/143

• Commissioned Book Chapter “Globalization, Islam and Culture: Lessons from Pakistan’s Occluded Histories” co-author Ayesha Kanwal Dar. Commissioned Book Chapter in book volume “Global Pakistan-Pakistan’s Role in the International System” FES-SDPI, June 2022.

• Review of Siren Song: Understanding Pakistan Through Its Women Singers, by Fawzia Afzal-Khan. TDR: The Drama Review, vol. 66 no. 1, 2022, p. 177-179. Project MUSE muse.jhu.edu/article/849184.

Ethnographic Fieldwork and unpublished thesis

• PhD Culture and Performance Thesis Choreographing [in] Pakistan: Indu Mitha, Dancing Occluded histories in "The Land of the Pure, University of California at Los Angeles, 2012.

• MA Anthropology Thesis The Rubabis of Chunna Mandi: A Study in the Anthropology of Music, Quaid-eAzam University, 1999.