She also directs the Refugee and Forced Migration Program at DePaul University. Sharma has published on post-colonialism, globalization, South Asia, migration and citizenship. Her books include New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the United States and the forthcoming In the Hyphen of the Nation-State. She has written for publications including Tehelka, Outlook magazine, Inside Higher Ed and has appeared on WBEZ's Worldview. In her spare time, she records oral history for the organization 1947 Partition Archive, based in Berkeley, California.