DPhil, History, University of Oxford, 2002
MA, History (Ancient), JNU, 1996
Early cinema, World Cinema, Asian Cinema, Bombay Cinema, Cultural histories of the 20th century, Contemporary Art and Media cultures
Associate Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, JNU, 2013-
Deputy Director, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2010-2013
Curator, Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema, New Delhi, 2007-2009
Research Fellow, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK, 2003-2006
Coordinator of the Tibet Visual History Project, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, 2003
Research Fellowship, Ferguson Centre for African and Asian Studies, Open University, UK, 2003-2006
Proxima accessit, Frere Exhibition, University of Oxford, 1999
Felix Scholar at Oxford, 1996-1999
University Grants Commission Junior Research Fellowship, India, 1996
Nehru Memorial Award in History, 1996
Film and Migration, South Asi?, Immanuel Ness (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Global Human Migration, New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
‘Cinematograph to Cinema: Bombay, 1896-1928’, Bioscope, v.2, no.1, 2011
‘Genealogies for our Skins: Notes on Bare Minima’ in Sandhini Poddar ed., Being Singular Plural: Moving Images from India, New York: The Guggenheim Museum, 2010
‘At Home in the World: Cinema and the Cultures of the Young in Bombay in the 1920s’ in Douglas Haynes, Abigail McGowan, Tirthankar Roy and Haruka Yanagisawa eds., Towards a History of Consumption in South Asia, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2010
(co-edited with Elizabeth Edwards) Visual Sense: A Cultural Reader, Oxford: Berg, 2009
(co-edited with Madhusree Dutta and Rohan Shivkumar) Project Cinema/City: Bombay/Mumbai, New Delhi: Tulika Books (forthcoming, 2013)
Editor, The 100 Years of Bombay Cinema, Marg Special Issue, v.64, no.4, Mumbai: Marg Publications, 2013
(with Virchand Dharamsey), The Script of Gul-e-Bakavali (Kohinoor, 1924), Bioscope, v.3, no.2, 2012