Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
DPhil candidate in Oriental (Middle Eastern Studies) at the University of Oxford, St. Antony’s College. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.
Her research engages with contemporary transnational networks of Muslim intellectuals and the production of knowledge on them in the Anglophone literature. Her dissertation explores the role of social capital (understood, in Bourdieu’s terms, as resources linked to the possession of a network of relationships) in the process of intellectual legitimization of thinkers. Theoretically, her research merges Islamic intellectual history and historical sociology of knowledge.
Discipline
Other
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Globalization
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Europe
Specialties
Contemporary Reformist Intellectual Trends Within
Languages
English (advanced)
Italian (native)
Persian (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2008
| Middle Eastern Studies
| Università Ca Foscari
BA
| 2005
| Architecture
| Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia
Abstracts
Negotiating the Politics of Islamic Reformation in the “West:” The Case of Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd and Abdolkarim Soroush.
Academics as Gatekeepers: Shaping the Study of Contemporary Islamic Thought in the English Academia
