Funding

I have been awarded the Digital Humanities Summer Fellowship by the Simpson Center for the Humanities to continue Digital Iran in summer 2023. Digital Iran Reloaded: Iranian Censorship of Citizens and the Gaming Industry builds on digitaliranproject.com with the aims of creating dynamic online appendices for the dissertation “Affective Entanglements and Precarious Lifeworlds: Iranian Gamers […]

For the 2021-2022 AY, I received the Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies with a top off scholarship to continue my research and begin writing the dissertation.

I received the Maurice and Lois Schwartz Fellowship from the Near Eastern Languages & Civilization department to travel to Yerevan, Armenia. I had planned on researching Iranian gamers in gaming cafes in Yerevan, as it is known for its large gaming community. Due to the nature of COVID and current events in Armenia, this research

I am proud to share that I am the recipient of the Social Data Research and Dissertation Fellowship, funded by the Omidyar Network, for the 2020-2021 academic year. The funds will assist my field research entitled “The 2020 US Elections Post-GamerGate: Political Discourse among Iranian and Iranian-American Gamers on Social Media.” Learn more about my

On 17 June 2020, I was awarded the Roshan Institute Excellence in Persian Studies Fellowship from the Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Washington. Follow the hyperlinks in this post for more information!