I am Director of Graduate Studies at NYU's Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, where I have spent seven years transforming graduate education through curriculum innovation, federal grant administration, and partnerships that extend well beyond the university. I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from Harvard with a secondary degree in Critical Media Practice. My research explores tourism, visual cultures, and the cultural imaginations of place across the Middle East.
My work sits at the intersection of digital humanities, AI pedagogy, and Middle Eastern studies. I bring experience managing large scale federal grants and building collaborative programs that connect academic research to public engagement. I am increasingly focused on questions at the intersection of AI and humanistic inquiry: what it means to teach, research, and produce scholarship when the tools themselves are changing what knowledge looks like.
