I am an associate professor in Culture and Politics at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. My work falls into three broad areas. First, my work looks at the relation between racial and caste capitalism, especially as these systems stratify and hierarchize global laborers. In my current project, Labor, Caste, Race, I draw from historical and contemporary cases to show how racial and caste capitalist analysis together explain the current trajectories of global hierarchy and accumulation. In my previous project, I focused on the politics of help and its role in upholding systems of racial and caste capitalism. In Brown Saviors and their Others (Duke, 2023), I take India's burgeoning help economy, specifically the education NGO sector, as a site from which to interrogate these ideas. Second, I am a visual anthropologist and ethnographic filmmaker who has been interested in developing decolonial, participatory visual methodologies. Finally, I am an advocate for Curiosity Studies (with Perry Zurn), an emerging interdisciplinary field which challenges us to think anew about scholarly production, pedagogic praxis, and the political role of the academician. I ask: what might a radical curiosity make possible and what political, economic, and social constraints prevent the flourishing of curiosity?