His scholarship focuses on the Gulf States of the Arabian Peninsula, with interests in transnational labor, environmental anthropology, and the political ecology of both rural and urban peoples of the Arabian Peninsula. He is the author of City of Strangers: Gulf Migration and the Indian Community in Bahrain (Cornell, 2010), and the co-editor of Constructing Qatar: Migrant Narratives from the Margins of the Global System (Smashwords, 2012) and Dispatches from the Field: Neophyte Ethnographers in a Changing World (Waveland Press, 2006).