Qualifications
2025-Present
Georg Forster Research Fellow (Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Project: Researching Caste-Based Discrimination in Pakistan: Denial of the Problem, Epistemic Blind Spots, and Pathways toward the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
2014-2018
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Anthropology
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan / Bielefeld University, Germany (Bi-nationally Supervised Doctoral Programme) Dissertation: Identity Politics in Pakistan: An Ethnographic Study of Dalit Activism in Sindh Supervised jointly under a bi-national DAAD doctoral programme between Quaid-i-Azam University and Bielefeld University Resident Fellow, Bielefeld University, Germany (2016–2017)
2016-2017
Doctoral Resident Fellow
Bielefeld Graduate School of History and Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany DAAD-funded doctoral fellowship under the bi-nationally supervised PhD programme Supervised by Prof. Dr. Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka Conducted doctoral research on caste, identity politics, and Dalit activism in Pakistan
2012-2014
Master of Philosophy (MPhil) in Social and Cultural Anthropology
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
2012-2013
Research Fellow
Hanns Seidel Foundation, Islamabad, Pakistan Research fellow under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Andrea Fleschenberg, Humboldt University of Berlin Assisted and participated in research and seminar activities on nation-building, citizenship, and governance in Pakistan MPhil research project: Peasant Identities and Activism: Creating Space for the Marginalized