Employement Experiences:

1. Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Arunachal Pradesh University, Pasighat (October 2025)
2. Assistant Professor (Guest), Department of Tribal Studies, Arunachal Pradesh University, Pasighat (August 2023-September 2025)

Research Projects:

1. ‘Research Officer’ for a research project on ‘Let’s Make our City Smart’- Inclusive, Sustainable and Safe City through an Action Programme’ funded by Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Department of Higher Education Government of India, under the principal investigator Prof. Shruti Tambe from 2018-2020.
2. ‘Research Assistant’ for a research project on ‘Social impact of Metro rail in Pune City’ funded by CSSH UGC, New Delhi, under the principal investigator Prof. Shruti Tambe, from August 2017 to March 2018.

Invited Lectures/Resource Person:

1. ‘India and its Diversity: Languages, Caste, Class, Religion, Ethnicity and Tribes’ for University of South-Eastern Norway (USN) exchange students at Dept. of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune on 25 January 2023.
2. ‘Democracy, Election, and Governance’ at S.B. Patil
   Architecture College, Pune, from 8 July 2021 to 24 July 2021.
3. ‘Plagiarism’ under the ‘Skill Development’ course organised by the Department of Sociology for its M.A. Students on 15 March 2021.
4. ‘Pluralism and Unity in diversity’, organised by the
   Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University with the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), on 14, 16 and 19 August 2019.
5. ‘India and Its Diversity’ at Sanjeevan Engineering and
   Technology Institute, Panhala, Kolhapur, Maharashtra on 2 June 2019.

Internship:

1. ‘Interned’ at Red Cross Youth Department, Telemark,
   Norway, Norwegian Red Cross from August to October 2022.

1. Tribes and Ethnicity
2. Religion, Politics, and Culture
3. Urban Studies
4. Phenomenology
5. Sociology of Communication and Knowledge
6. Social Movements

1. ‘Cosmopolitanism over Ethnonationalism through Social Movement: The Case of Anti-CAA Movement in India’, November 2024, Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 16:2, 43-56. https://doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v16.i2.8787
2. ‘Losing Potential Demographic Dividend: Youths and Insecurities in Northeast India’, October 2023, Dogo Rangsang Research Journal, Vol. 13 (5), ISSN 2347-7180.
3. ‘Civil Society and Anti Dam Movement in Tawang’, February 2019, Rethinking Development and Displacement in India, Research journey, Special Issue-155, p. 105-107, ISSN 2348-7143.
4. ‘Changing Religious Practices at Home: Justice in a Geopolitically Sensitive Region’, in an Edited Book titled “Making Social Justice” to be Published by Peter Lang (Upcoming).

1. Presented Paper titled “The Question of Democracy and Citizenship in India: Case of Anti-CAA Movement and its Cosmopolitan Nature” in a National Conference titled ‘Sociology, Development, and Democracy’ organised by Indian Sociological Society at BML Munjal University, Haryana, 28-29 December 2024.
2. Presented Paper titled “Music and Everyday Life Perspective” in an International Conference in Melbourne, Australia, titled ‘Resurgent Authoritarianism: Sociology of New Entanglements of Religions, Politics, and Economies’ organised by International Sociological Association from 25 June 2023 -1 July 2023.
3. Presented Paper titled “From Nyok Kanam of Nyubs to Namlo Practitioners’ Dwr-Nam” in a two days National Seminar titled ‘Shamanistic Practices and Narratives Among the Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh’ organised by Arunachal Institute of Tribal Studies (AITS), Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) in collaboration with Research Institute of World’s Ancient Traditions, Cultures & Heritage (RIWATCH) and North Eastern Council (NEC), Shillong, Govt. of India, from 18-19 September 2023.
4. Presented Paper titled “Everyday Popular Culture and Nationalism” paper presented at an International Multidisciplinary Symposium titled ‘Open Pages in South Asian Studies-IV’ organised by Shivaji University Kolhapur, India and Russian State University for the Humanities, from 29-31 January 2022.
5. Presented Paper titled “Childhood and Its Construction: Emerging Issues and Challenges” paper presented in a National Conference titled ‘Hundred Years of Sociology in India: Exploring Trajectories for the Future’ organised by Indian Sociological Society at University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya from 20-22 December 2022.

1. National Workshop on “Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Sustainability” organised by University of North Bengal for Malaviya Mission Teacher Training Centre from 30 July 2025 to 05 August 2025.
2. National Workshop on “Current Challenges for Tribal Policy in India: Some Issues” organised by RC 07 on Adivasi and Tribal Studies, Indian Sociological Society on 11 July 2024.
3. National Level Workshop on “Academic Writing and Publishing in Sociology and Anthropology” organized by the Dept. of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune in collaboration with Indian Sociological Society and Anthropological Survey of India from 17-22 November, 2021.
4. International Workshop on “Work and Labour: Yesterday and Today” organised by the Dept. of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University on 18 February 2020
5. Workshop on “Understanding Today’s India” organized by the Department of Sociology, Savitribai Phule Pune University from 2-4 May 2019.

1. Three Months Paid Exchange Programme at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), Norway, from August-October 2022, Funded by the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills (Hk-dir) UTFORSK
2. Senior Research Fellowship by University Grants Commission from May 2020-April 2023
3. UGC-NET/JRF – 2017
4. Asha Joshi Gold Medal for Securing Highest Marks in in M.A. Sociology Examination held in May 2016.

1. Indian Sociological Society (ISS) (Life Member): RC 28 –Sociology of Everyday Life, RC 17 – Sociology of Social Movements, and RC 19 – Urban Studies.
2. International Sociological Association (ISA): RC 14 – Sociology of Communication, Knowledge and Culture.