Where I am at...
In school: Third year doctoral student in the Women’s Studies Program at UCLA.
Spatially: Somewhere in-between Lahore and Los Angeles, currently on W. 30th Street.
Temporally: On the cusp of modernity and postmodernity.
Theoretically: Currently struggling with theories of subjectivity
 
What I study...
Gendered subjectivities of Muslim women in urban Pakistan within a transnational feminist framework More specifically, I want to explore why increasing numbers of urban middle-class women are drawn towards modern religious-based women’s groups
 
What I do…
Activism, cooking, dancing, family, Teaching, laughing, loving, living, Writing, chilling, Reading, reading, reading.


Advisor:
Professor Sondra Hale
 

Conferences:
Huntington Women’s Studies Seminar, Huntington Library, “Transnational Feminist Pedagogies: Reframing the Dialogue in the Classroom” March 2004.

International Women’s Day, “Transnational Organizing,” California State University, Fullerton, March 2004 Abstract accepted for Sixth Annual Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality: The Power of Inersectionality Symposium, “South Asian American Activism in a post 911 World,” February 2004

Pacific Southwest Women’s Studies Association (PWSA), Cal Poly Pomona. “Linking Theory and Activism: Redefining Categorical Feminism and Feminist Theory,” April 2003

Thinking Gender Conference, Film presentation titled “Woman and Nation in Bollywood Films,” UCLA, March 2003 Southern California Regional Conference for the Association for Asian American Studies, “Community Responses to 911 Hate-Crimes,” February 2002

Speaker, Attack on America; The Aftermath of September 11th, “Imperialism, Global Violence and September 11th,” California State University, Fullerton, October 2001

 
Work:
California State University, Part-time Instructor, Women’s Studies Program, Fall 2000 - current

University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate Student Researcher, UCLA Global South Initiative

University of California, Los Angeles, Women’s Studies Program, Teaching Assistant, Fall 2002 – Sprint 2004

Leadership Development in Interethnic Relations (LDIR), Asian Pacific American Legal Center, School-based Program Coordinator, 4/01-9/02

California Women’s Law Center, Community Organizer, 3/00 – 4/01

University of Oregon, Eugene, Graduate Teaching Fellow, Fall 1996 - Fall 1998
 

Independent Research Experience:
Independent Research Masters Thesis, Bahawalpur/Lahore, Pakistan, 8/98 – 2/99

Connections Across Cultures (Funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation), Consultant, Eugene, OR,6/98-8/98

Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, Gilgit, Pakistan, Research Intern, July 1997 – September 1997

 
Grants:
Quality of Graduate Education Grant, UCLA Women’s Studies, 2004-2005

Summer Research Mentorship Grant, 2004

Global Graduates Research Fellowship, 1997-1998

Aga Khan Rural Support Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1997

 
Publications:
Our Memories of Islam: Reclaiming 'Muslim' and Redefining Faith" for an anthology of "Through Poetry, Prose, Photography: Muslim Women Redefine War" to be published in Winter 2005 (with A. Basarudin and M. Mohammed)

“Voices of Resistance: Iraqi Women Speak Out” Middle East Women’s Studies Association (AMEWS) Review.  Summer 2004.  (with A. Basarudin)

Incite! Women of Color Against Militarism, zine produced by Incite! Los Angeles, 2003 (with S. Lodhia, R. Yee and K. Freeman)

“Chronicling the Influence of Early Feminists,” Books-On-Law Book Reviews, March 2001, Vol. 4, no. 3 (with S. Fogel)


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