I am an interdisciplinary scholar researching narratives of domination and political storytelling of religious populism. I play interdisciplinarity by practicing ethnography and yoyoing between humanities and social sciences to rediscover the familiar in unfamiliar ways. I approach my research through objects and bodies configured through history and collective memory. I follow these questions through approaches of Material Religion, Visual Studies, Intersectional Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. I begin with the mundane affairs of everyday life and end up in the weirdest and lesser-explored corners of existence. Please be aware of the madness before coming closer!
I have been educated and worked internationally. Undergraduates in Iran, postgraduate, and 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."
You can watch a short introduction to my work on violence here
- I take part in the editorial team of American Ethnologist & the Journal of Politics, Religion, and Ideology
