Biography
I am a PhD Student in the Department of Political Economy and a US-UK Fulbright Postgraduate Award grantee. I hold an MS in Journalism and an MA in South Asian Studies from Columbia University, New York. I have worked as a journalist in Pakistan for The News and The Express Tribune, and with the United Nations as a researcher, where I co-authored a UN publication on practices and policy recommendations aimed at advancing women’s empowerment in the workplace.
Research interests
- Social movements
- Ethnicity
- Race and capitalism
Teaching
- 6SSPP309 (Religion and Politics)
Previous teaching
- 6SSPP407 (States and Societies in the Global South)
Doctoral research
My research explores the intersection between ethnicity/race and capitalism with particular attention to the relevance of these dynamics in a non-Western context. I do so through a comparative study of the discourse of contemporary social movements mobilised around race in the United States and ethnicity in Pakistan.