Profile

I pursued an undergraduate degree at St Stephen’s College in India and received training as a traditional historian. A master’s degree at the Graduate Institute in 2022 was seminal to cementing my interest in memes and their utility as historical sources. I have worked as a Teaching Fellow at Ashoka University in India between my time as a master’s student and a PhD candidate.
 

phd

PhD Thesis Title: The Memetic Anatomy of a Fall: A Microhistory of 9/11 Told Through the Internet Meme.

PhD Supervisor: Davide Rodogno / Aidan Russell (Second Reader)

My doctoral dissertation aims to reconstruct a history of popular imagination of the events of the September 11 attacks in the United States of America. I write this history with the internet meme as my primary source.
 

Research Interests
 

• Memetics
• Digital Media
• Audiencing
• Media Archaeology
• United States of America and the September 11 Attacks
• Meaning-Making
• Web 2.0, Web 3.0
• Artificial Intelligence and Memetics
   

Awards
 

• Arditi Prize in International Studies (2023) for best master’s thesis titled In Me(me)oriam: Memes, Imaginations of the Past and New Ways of Telling History.