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Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
Ph.D. 2017

Dissertation: Insanity, Intimacy, and Institution: Governance and Care Under the Mental Health Legal Reform in Contemporary China

human behavior and mental life; biological and cultural evolution; history of ideas; creativity; knowledge formation;

Sociology and Anthropology of Religion; Life Trajectories; Education; Muslims; Habitus; War on Terror

Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst 
Ph.D. 2014

Dissertation: Effects of early life experience on infant rhesus macaque cognition and stress physiology

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

Ph.D. 2019

Dissertation: That Thing on Their Heads: How Muslim American Women Became Navigators of a New Culture

Postdoctoral Scholar, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago

Ph.D. 2019

Dissertation: That Thing on Their Heads: How Muslim American Women Became Navigators of a New Culture

Visiting Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology
Ph.D. 2023

Dissertation: Precarious Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting in Hà Nội, Việt Nam

Senior Study Director, Westat, Inc
Ph.D. 2008

Dissertation: Psychiatry, Modernity and Family Values: Clenched Teeth Illness in North India

Assistant Instructional Professor, University of Chicago

Ph.D. 2022

Dissertation: Practicing Gender: The Meaning and Uses Of Gender Affirming Care For Youth in The United States

biological mechanisms; adaptive behaviors; genetic processes; 

Professor of Practice, Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies

Ph.D. 2019

Dissertation: An Ambivalent Peace: Mistrust, Reconciliation, and the Intervention Encounter in Colombia