His research and teaching interests include dance studies, queer nightlife, South Asian diaspora, global queer politics, performance ethnography, critical race studies, masculinity and femininity, and drag. Kareem’s publications have discussed: black-Asian intimacies in film; performance and drag as pedagogical tools; transgender theater and queer activism in India; and the state of queer theater in the academy. He is currently working on a book project titled Ishtyle: Improvising Gay South Asian Nightlife, a performance ethnography of gay nightlife spaces in Bangalore and Chicago.