I am a political theorist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University. I write at the intersection of histories and theories of media and mediation, anti- and de-colonial history and theory, Iranian Studies, and Middle East Studies. I have designed and taught courses on ethics and justice in modern political thought, the legacies of secularism in the Islamic Revival, propaganda and post-truth politics, and the role that religion has played in social movements in the Global South.

My book manuscript, The End of Prophecy: Mediations of Political Myth in Contemporary Iran, offers a rethinking of the public sphere with focus on the role media has played in social movements before and after the 1979 Revolution in Iran. While public spheres are typically thought of as places for rational deliberation, this book excavates the archive of the Revolution and its afterlives to argue that ‘mediascapes’ are places where social actors participate in the production and circulation of political myths.

Before Princeton, I was an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow in the Religion, Race, & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia.

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