I am an interdisciplinary academic focusing on anthropology of domination and political storytelling of dominants by centring mnemonic objects and bodies configiured in war memories. I play interdisciplinarity via ethnography and yoyoing between humanities and social sciences to rediscover the familiar in unfamiliar ways. I am inspired by Visual and Material Culture Studies, Inetrsectional Feminism and Speculative Realism. Prominent scholars of Iranian Studies have called my book Promise of Violece (MUP, 2026) a "caring and courageous ethnographical endeavor", "a dazzling and intellectually fearless book" and "a captivating read".
I have been educated and worked internationally in and out of Europe. My first PhD (2016, passed without revision) in India. I was trained by the prominent subaltern feminist sociologist Sharmila Rege, as well as critical thinkers such as Professor Deepak Mehta. Then, I pursued a second PhD (2020, Cum Laude) in Cultural Anthropology in the Netherlands to demonstrate my worth to the "white academia." I am invested in anti-racist and anti-zionist knowledge production. Accordingly, I engage with collaborations, contributions and supervisions.
