Specialties

Critical Medical Anthropology; politics of the body; gender, citizenship and human rights; medical encounters; law and public health; transition medicine and surgery; Islam and biomedicine; South Asia and trans Muslim identity. 

I study legal and medical bureaucracy assembled around the citizenship category of ‘transgender’ and ‘khwaja sira’ in Pakistan. I am particularly interested in Islamic understandings of nature, the body, and related psychiatric and surgical practices.