麻豆传媒

Biography

Dr. Gill's research examines the intersections of masculinity, popular culture, political violence, and transnational migration in India. He is also an award-winning filmmaker and has made several ethnographic films that have screened at film festivals, academic conferences and on television networks worldwide including BBC, Doordarshan (Indian National TV) and PBS. His films include Mardistan (Macholand) which explores Indian manhood focusing on issues of sexual violence, toxic masculinity, son preference and homophobia, Roots of Love which looks at the changing significance of hair and turban among Sikhs in India, and Sent Away Boys which looks at how provincial communities in Punjab are transformed by the exodus of young men giving up farming to seek a better future abroad. His forthcoming book is titled Coming of Age in Macholand: Masculinity, Sexuality, and Transnationality in Post-Conflict Punjab. Gill is the recipient of the Point Foundation Scholarship, Fulbright-Nehru Research Fellowship, American Institute of Indian Studies Performing Arts Fellowship, the Institute for Citizens & Scholars' Career Enhancement Fellowship and the Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship. Dr. Gill is the current president of .

Scholarship

Films

• (2016, 45 min. Punjabi)
• (2014, 28 min. Punjabi, Hindi & English)
• (2011, 26 min. Punjabi & English)
• (2008, 9 min. Turkish)
• (2007, 26 min. English)
• (2003, 20 min. English)

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Fellowships & Grants

2024 Antipode Foundation Film Grant 
2024 TU Faculty Development & Research Fellowship
2021 Whiting Foundation Public Engagement Fellowship 
2019 Fulbright Nehru Award Academic and Professional Award
2019 American Institute of Indian Studies Research Fellowship
2019 TU Faculty Development and Research Fellowship
2017 MDOCS Storytellers鈥� Institute Fellowship, Skidmore College, Summer
2015 Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty 
2015 Fejos Post-Doctoral Fellowship, The Wenner-Gren Foundation
2015 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) 
2013 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) 
2010 National Film Commission Grant, Public Service Broadcasting Trust (PSBT) 
2006 鈥� 2011 Point Foundation National LGBT Scholarship
2009 JB MRC Junior Research Fellowship, Jamia Millia Islamia University 

Languages

Hindi & Punjabi (native)