PhD candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago

M.A., Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago August 2006

B.A., Mathematics with a Specialization in Economics, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago, August 2001

“Children of Cain in the Land of Error: a Central Asian Merchant's Account of Governance and Society in Ming China”, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 30:3, 2010

“Tahirih Qurrat al-Ayn” in Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, 2007

Violence in the Name of Honour: Theoretical and Political Challenges by Nahla Abdo and Shahrzad Mojab eds. Book Review. National Women’s Studies Association Journal, Fall 2006

Panel Organizer: “Filling in the Map: Processes of Exchange and the Production of Geographical Knowledge in East Asia and the Middle East ” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

Conference Organizer, Middle East History and Theory Conference, U. of Chicago, 2009, 2004, 2003

Workshop Coordinator, Middle East History and Theory Workshop, U. of Chicago, 2002-2004, 2008-2009

Student Representative, International Society for Iranian Studies, 2006

“Heterotopian China and an Ottoman Messiah: Borders in an Age of Apocalypse” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2009

“China in the Imaginary Geography of the Post-Mongol Islamic World: "Chinese" Styles in Timurid Imperial Image-Making” Association of Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2009

“Baha'i Schools and the Beginnings of Modern Public Education in Iran” The Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911 Centenary Conference, Oxford, UK, 2006

Writing Intern in the Humanities Core, University of Chicago, September 2008 - present

Teaching Assistant for Intermediate Persian, University of Chicago, Jan.-June 2008, June-Aug. 2010

Teaching Assistant for Elementary Persian, University of Chicago, Jan.-Mar. 2005, Jan.-June 2010

Neubauer Fellow, University of Chicago, 2002-2007 (five-year full tuition and stipend fellowship)