I am an incoming PhD candidate in the CITE program at the Rutgers Anthropology Department. I have been teaching courses on Gender Studies and Feminist Historiography at the Lahore University of Management and Sciences (LUMS) after completing an MSc in Gender, Development and Globalization from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and an M.A in Gender Studies from the Central European University (CEU). I have also worked on gender equality initiatives primarily based in Pakistan. My research interests are gender, migration and displacement, governmentality, digital and social activism, and politics with a regional focus on South Asia. In the coming years as a PhD student, I am interested in exploring ways of decolonizing local knowledge production vis a vis the Global South through a focus on oral history, social movements and gendered accounts of displacement and belongingness especially in Northwest Pakistan.