Anika Kabani, our new co-convenor!

Anika (she/her) is a DPhil candidate in Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Her doctoral research broadly explores the interactions between religion and the state in the realm of migration, and more specifically investigates how migration processes shape the lives of Muslim asylum seekers in New York City. Anika is interested in the way that legal-bureaucratic spaces manage, shape, and transform religious subjectivities, and the relationship this has to the secular forging of 'ideal' Muslim subjects in the United States. 

She holds an MSc in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, an MA in Islamic Studies and Humanities from SOAS, BAs in International and Area Studies and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a current recipient of the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship from the Institute of Ismaili Studies.