Living Class in Urban India, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press; Delhi: Permanent Black (2016)
2018 Honorable Mention for the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, Association of Asian Studies
“Apprehensions: On Gaining Recognition as Middle-Class in Madurai,” Contributions to Indian Sociology (n.s.), 47, 2: 217-243 (2013)
“The Pleasures and Anxieties of Being in the Middle: Emerging Middle Class Identities in Urban South India,” Modern Asian Studies 46, 3: 559-599 (2012)
“Widening the Lens on South Asian Cinemas,” Sara Dickey and Rajinder Dudrah, in Sara Dickey and Rajinder Dudrah, eds., South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens, pp. 1-7. London: Routledge (2011)
“South Asian Cinemas: Widening the Lens,” Sara Dickey and Rajinder Dudrah, South Asian Popular Culture 8, 3: 207-212 (2010)
“Anjali’s Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban India,” in Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb, eds., Everyday Life in South Asia, Second Edition, pp. 192-205. Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2010)
“Fantasy, Realism, and other Mixed Delights: What Have Film Analysts Seen in Popular Indian Cinema?” Projections: Journal of Movies and Mind 3, 2: 1-19, 2009
“The Nurturing Hero: Changing Images of MGR,” in Selvaraj Velayutham, ed., Tamil Cinema: The Cultural Politics of India's Other Film Industry. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2008
“Still ‘One Man in a Thousand’,” in David Blamey and Robert E. D’Souza, eds., Living Pictures: Perspectives on the Film Poster in India. London: Open Editions, 2005
“Opposing Faces: Film Star Fan Clubs and the Construction of Class Identity in South India,” in Christopher Pinney and Rachel Dwyer, eds., Pleasure and the Nation: The History, Politics and Consumption of Popular Culture in India. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001
Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey, eds. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000
“Mutual Exclusions: Domestic Workers and Employers on Labor, Class and Character in South India,” in Kathleen M. Adams and Sara Dickey, eds., Home and Hegemony: Domestic Service and Identity Politics in South and Southeast Asia, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000
“Permeable Homes: Domestic Service, Household Space and the Vulnerability of Class Boundaries in Urban India,” American Ethnologist 27, 2: 462-489, May 2000 [Reprinted in revised form in Martha Ann Selby and Indira Vishwanathan Peterson, eds., Tamil Geographies, SUNY Press, 2008]