My current work is at the intersection of global, environmental, and intellectual history. My dissertation narrates how contingent human interactions in the 20th century constructed the “reef” in Belize, Sri Lanka, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Philippines in both local and global ways. My work has been supported by grants and fellowships by the Macmillan Center, South Asia Studies Council, the Franke Program in Science and the Humanities, the Overbrook Foundation, the Marine Biological Laboratory, alongside initiatives and colloquia at various universities. See more about my research here.

Originally from Lahore, Pakistan, I conducted my undergraduate work at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). I’m a journalist, essayist, and critic and the founder, former chief editor, and associate editor of the literary journal South Asian Avant-Garde.

My public work has appeared in The Nation, L.A. Review of Books, NPR, Aeon, The Baffler, Dissent, and The American Prospect, among others.