Scholarship and Biography

Brian is a cultural anthropologist working at the intersections of queer studies, critical theory, popular culture, digital anthropology, and South Asian studies. His research projects broadly focus on sexual, gender, and racial minority subjects and the social worlds that they build at the interstices of recognition and discrimination. Brian’s work has appeared in South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies; Sexualities; POLAR; QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking; and the edited volume Queer Nightlife (Michigan Press).

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Honors

Summer Stipend Award
National Endowment for the Humanities (United States, Washington) - NEH, May 1, 2024
ACLS Fellowship
American Council of Learned Societies (United States, New York) - ACLS, July 2022
Alternate/Honorable Mention Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship
Ford Foundation (United States, New York), 2018
Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship
Social Science Research Council (United States, New York) - SSRC, 2016-2018
Fulbright-Nehru Student Research Award
Fulbright Association (United States, Washington D.C.), 2015-2016
Graduate Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation (United States, Arlington) - NSF, 2013-2018

Organizational Affiliations

Affiliated Faculty, Department of African and African American Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Interdepartmental Program in South Asian Studies, Brandeis University

Affiliated Faculty, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Brandeis University

Chair, Interdepartmental Program in South Asian Studies, Brandeis University

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University

Education

Brown University
Ph.D.
Brown University
M.A.
Texas Tech University
B.A.