She has a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Toronto, where she completed the collaborative doctoral program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies. Nicola’s research interests include identity, gender, caste, religion, modernity, postcoloniality, migration, citizenship, cultural poetics, and popular culture, and she has published in several of these areas, in addition to her ethnography, Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams: Identity and Modernity among Jat Sikhs (2011), which broadly concerns ethnicity, culture, and belonging amid the multiple contexts of the Punjabi diaspora. Nicola has been a member of ALIP’s Research, Policy, and Practice group since 2016.