Research
I am trained as a scholar of religion. My research focuses on intellectual, social, and material histories. I am particularly interested in fresh theoretical approaches to Islamic subjectivity and sociality (adab); Persian and Arabic literary cultures; and affects, emotions, and embodiment in Islam.
My reseach has been supported by a Bahari Fellowship in the Persian Arts of the Book at the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (2026-27), and a Visiting Research Fellowship at the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2025-26).
I completed my Ph.D. in Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, my dissertation was titled Pious Praise Poetry: Emotions, Piety, and the Making of the Medieval Islamic Subject.
I have a master’s degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies (my concentration was Arabic literary history) from the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations department, and another one in Religious Studies, both from Penn. I received my undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Near Eastern Intellectual History from the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies.
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