- Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College (from 2019 to 2021)
- Quondam Fellow, All Souls College (from 2015 to 2019)
- Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Chicago (from 2015 to 2018)
- Examination Fellow, All Souls College (from 2008 to 2015)
- Undergraduate, Merton College, Oxford (from 2005 to 2008) and Princeton University (Fall 2006)
- Comparative environmental politics
- Energy histories
- Modern South Asia
- Critical infrastructure studies
- 'The Asian Anthropocene: Electricity and Fossil Developmentalism', Journal of Asian Studies (forthcoming)
- (Co-edited, with Matthew McCartney) Class and Conflict: Revisiting Pranab Bardhan’s Political Economy of India (Oxford University Press, forthcoming)
- 'The Politics of Electricity Reform', World Development 104 (2018): 128–139
- 'Reinventing State Capitalism in India', Contemporary South Asia 25.1 (2017): 85–100
- (Co-edited, with Sneha Krishnan and Megan Eaton Robb) Urban Emotions in South Asia, special issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 27.4 (2017)
- Delhi: Mostly Harmless (Random House India, 2013)
- Associate Editor, Politics (from 2018)
- Fellow, Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy, Johns Hopkins (from 2018)
- Residential Fellow, University of California Humanities Research Institute (2018)
- Visiting Research Scholar, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi (2016)
- UK–India Education and Research Initiative Visiting Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2015)