Puja-Arti is a PhD researcher on the Vulnerable State project. Hosted in the Department of Sociology, her doctoral research explores the moral emotions of street-level bureaucrats who work with religious minority asylum seekers from Pakistan and Afghanistan in west and northwest India. Her research utilises ethnographic methods to reveal the labour of navigating moral emotions at the heart of bureaucratic practices and tasks.

Before joining Warwick, she graduated with an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her MPhil thesis examined dialogue as a critical site for ethical self-cultivation among British Gujarati Hindus. She also holds an MPhil in Theology, Religion, and Philosophy of Religion (Distinction) from the University of Cambridge and a joint Bachelor of Arts in Theology and Oriental Studies (Sanskrit) from the University of Oxford. She has experience working with NGOs on education and social justice projects in west and northwest India.

She is broadly interested in the sociology of emotions, the anthropologies of ethics and the state, religion, and visual and material culture.

Contact: puja-arti.patel@warwick.ac.ukLink opens in a new window