peer reviewed articles
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“Birha: Approaching a Poetics Beyond the Human,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 42, no. 3: (2022) 603-619.
"Reform in Fragments: Sovereignty and the Sikh Tradition in the Late 19th Century, "Modern Asian Studies 56, no. 4 (2022): 1125-1152.
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“Other than Human: Rethinking Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: An Introduction,” co-authored with Parama Roy in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 42, no. 3: 561-567.
"Led Around By The Nose: Tracking and Trailing Psychoanalysis," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 42 no. 1 (2022): 255–262.
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"Formations of the Corridor: A Border Christology," Theory & Event 25 no. 1 (2022): 69-97.
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“Critique of Archived Life: Toward a Hesitation of Sikh Immigrant Accumulation,” co-authored with Jasdeep Singh Brar, positions: asia critique 29, no. 2 (2021): 319-346.
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“The Invisible Hand of the Indic,” Cultural Critique 110 (2021): 75-109.
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“There is No Colonial Relationship: Antagonism, Sikhism, and South Asian Studies,” History & Theory 57, no. 2 (2018): 193-215.
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“Dusky Countenances: Ambivalent Bodies and Desires in the Theosophical Society,” Journal of the History of Sexuality 27, no. 2 (2018): 264-293.
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“Guru Nanak is not at The White House: An Essay on the Idea of Sikh-American Redemption,” co-authored with Jasdeep Singh Brar, Sikh Formations: Religion, Culture, Theory 13, no. 3 (2017): 147-161.
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Book Reviews and Review Articles
“Review of Junaid Quadri, Transformations of Tradition: Islamic Law in Colonial Modernity and SherAli Tareen, Defending Muhammad in Modernity,” in Journal of the American Academy of Religion 90 no. 2 (2022): 497-501.
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“On the Prejudices of Historians.” Review Essay of Charles Hirschkind, The Feeling of History: Islam, Romanticism, and Andalusia, History and Anthropology 32 no. 5 (2022): 637-669.
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Review of Caleb Simmons, Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India (OUP, 2020) in Religion 51 no. 2 (2021): 310-314.
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“What is Called Ghostly?: A Mother’s Story.” Review Essay of Alan Klima, Ethnography #9, in Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World. January 21, 2021.
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“Mind the Gap: Islam, Secularism, and the Law.” Review Essay of Julia Stephens, Governing Islam: Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia, Brinkley Messick, Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology, and Talal Asad, Secular Translations: Nation-State, Modern Self, and Calculative Reason, in qui parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences 29 no.1 (2020): 179–202.
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“Tarrying with Christ: A Review Essay of Marika Rose’s A Theology of Failure: Žižek against Christian Innocence,” in An und für sich. September 27, 2019.
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“When Dogs Bite.” A Review Essay of Jamil Jan Kochai’s 99 Nights in Logar, in Public Books, June 7, 2019.
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“Knotting South Asia: A Review Essay of Stefania Pandolfo’s Knot of the Soul: Madness, Psychoanalysis, Islam,” in An und für sich, November 15, 2018.
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“The Multiple Horizons of Sikh Orthodoxy: Tradition, Fantasy, and Modern Temporality. Review Essay of Arvind Mandair, Religion and the Specter of the West: Sikhism, India, Postcoloniality, and the Politics of Translation,” in the Journal of Sikh and Punjab Studies 23, nos. 1-2 (2016): 181-192.
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“A Sublime Inheritance?: Review Essay of Anshu Malhotra and Farina Mir’s Punjab Reconsidered,” in Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World Review, November 5, 2015
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online essays
“Protest, Politics, and Panjab: A Conversation Between Navyug Gill and Rajbir Singh Judge” in borderlines, February 14, 2021.
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“Glancing Awry at Sikh Immigrant Life,” co-authored with Jasdeep Singh Brar in borderlines, April 6, 2019.
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"A Preliminary Enquiry Concerning Aunties in Contemporary Understanding," in Milestones: Commentary on the Islamic World, February 15, 2018.
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