I work at the intersections of sociology, education and linguistic anthropology and now political science. My research focuses on the cultural and linguistic dimensions of governing minority populations, particularly colonial and postcolonial regimes of governmentality and the forms of resistance they generate. I received my Ph.D. in 2020 from the Language, Context, and Culture strand of the Urban Education Department at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), where my dissertation examined Kurdish language activism in Turkey as a site of colonial governance, political struggle, and everyday resistance. My doctoral research culminated in the book Beyond Language: Kurdish Language Activism in the Face of Colonial Language Governmentality.

I currently work as a postdoctoral researcher as part of Sovereign Performance project looking at the performative politics of sovereignty in western Kurdistan (Syria), also known as Rojava.

Formerly, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Multilingualism at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland (2021-2022). I have been teaching undergraduate and graduate courses on multilingualism and sociology of education at different colleges of the City University of New York since 2016