About
Education
I am a Ph.D. candidate in Interdisciplinary Studies at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I work as an uninvited settler scholar on the unceded, traditional and ancestral lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam) First Nation. My thesis supervisors are Glen Coulthard, Thomas Kemple, and Robyn Marasco (CUNY).I have an M.A. in International Relations from Middlesex University, England, and a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science from Jadavpur University, India.
Research
My research centers on theories of the background and their unconscious effects on social behavior.I am especially interested in studying the specific psychopathologies that power the ugly practices of the settler colonial lifeworld in Canada, viz., a. the pathological reification of colonial land as a transitional object in the Winnicottian sense; and, b. the concomitant sexualization of land as mother that constitutes the parricidal complex carried out by the hegemonic domination and genocidal erasure of Indigenous peoples who take up the signification of the ‘savage’ primal Father in the settler unconscious.As a project rooted in Frankfurt School Critical Theory, it speaks to radical and decolonized democratic practices of social integration that transgress the traditional metatheoretical debates around agonism and deliberation.
Teaching
UBC Killam Teaching Fellow
I am a Senior Graduate Teaching Assistant at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. I teach and assist in the Department of Political Science, and the Institute for Critical Indigenous Studies. I am also the 2022-2023 winner of the Killam Teaching Award (Graduate Teaching Assistant).Since 2020 I have taught and helped students enrolled in the following courses:
Introduction to Politics
Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Self-Determination
Quebec Politics
Contemporary Political Theory: Indigenous Politics and Political Theory
Indigenous Political Philosophy: "The Philosophy of Dispossession"
Research Dissemination
Conferences
I have presented my work at various conferences worldwide, including:
30th Annual Critical Theory Roundtable (2023), UC Santa Cruz
2023 Annual Conference of the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
2023 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association (WPSA)
2022 Annual Political Theory Graduate Conference, University of Chicago
2022 Annual General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
2022 Annual Conference of the Canadian Sociological Association (CSA)
2022 Annual Conference of the Association for Global Political Thought (AGPT), Harvard University
appointments
Professional
I am the current Editor-in-Chief of Mantle: The Annual Review of Interdisciplinary Studies, the flagship journal of the Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program (ISGP) at the University of British Columbia.I am also the current Graduate Communications Assistant at the Centre for Migration Studies, UBC.Additionally, I am the Circulation Manager for Tudor Rose, a publishing & marketing services agency in the United Kingdom.