Her research and teaching interests include cities and globalization, urban political economy, the politics of informality, and state-civil society relations with a regional focus on India. Her research has appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Politics & Society, City & Community, and several edited volumes. She is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Entrenched City: The Political Economy of Slums in Globalizing Mumbai (University of Minnesota Press). Based on historical and ethnographic research in Mumbai’s notorious Dharavi settlement, this work examines the Indian state’s changing response to residential informality in the context of economic globalization and global city formation.