RESEARCH EXPERIENCE, PAPER, and CONFERENCE

  • 2023 Conference presentation, paper, “Poly Transness”, Transition: 2023 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting, Toronto
  • 2023 Conference presentation, short film-essay, “ANAMNESIA: an experimental (auto)ethnofiction”, the International Conference “The Place of Memory and the Memory of Place”, organized by London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
  • 2023 Research Assistant/videographer in Firgrove Mixed Media Oral Narratives Project, supervised by Joel Ong’s supervision, Canadian Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, York University, Toronto
  • 2023 Conference presentation, paper, “Housing Insecurity and Its Impacts on Migrant Students’ Well Being: A Preliminary Autoethnography”, the Go Global SDGs in Action Student Challenge Program, York University
  • 2022 Research Assistant in “Parkway Forest Time Machine”, a SSHRC-funded hybrid project directed by Dr. Mary Bunch and Dr. Dolleen Manning with Indigenous and migrant youth, York University, Toronto
  • 2022 Conference presentation, short film essay, ‘A Landfowl, A Fork, A Watch, Another Look: A (conceptual) border drama’, at 44th annual conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa New Zealand (ASAANZ), Wellington. The film received a special mention in the 2022 “Dr Cyril Timo Schäfer Memorial Graduate Student Conference Presentation Awards.”
  • 2022 Research Assistant in “ToasterLab Virtual Parkway Forest”, a hybrid project by Dr Ian Garrett with migrant youth, York University, Toronto
  • 2022 Conference presentation, short video-performance premiered, ‘PolyRupture’, in “Eco Arts & Media Festival 2022”, Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change (EUC), York University, Toronto
  • 2022 Conference presentation, short film-essay premiered, ‘A Land fowl, A Fork, A Watch: A (conceptual) border drama’, in “Support, Sanctuary, Solidarity: Moving Towards Migrant Justice and Resilience” conference, Center for Refugee Studies, York University
  • 2021 Conference presentation, paper presented ‘Performance and Treatment: Hospital-Clowning for Children in Iran’ in “Children, Youth and Performance Conference 2021”, Toronto
  • 2021 Conference presentation, paper presented, ‘Count it Digitally: Digital Performance Before and During the Pandemic’, in “Imagining Differently” Conference, York University, Toronto
  • 2021 Research Assistant in “Digital Performance”, supervised by Dr. Abigail Shabtay, Department of Children and Youth Studies, York University, Toronto
  • 2020-present Peer reviewer in “New Sociology: Journal of Critical Praxis”, York University

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

  • 2022-2023 Teaching Assistant in “Introduction to Theatre and Performance”, Theatre Department, York University, Toronto
  • 2022 Guest Lecturer in the course “Theatre and Social Justice” with the topic “Sex, Revolution, and Performance”, Brock University
  • 2021 Teaching Assistant in “Canadian Theatre and Performance”, Theatre Department, York University, Toronto
  • 2021 Lecturer of “Performance Ethnography in Migration Studies”, Center for Refugee Studies, York University
  • 2020 Lecturer/facilitator of “Protest and Fun: Radical Clowning with/for Children”, Online, for children living in Meaford, Ontario
  • 2020 Teaching Assistant in “Canadian Theatre and Performance”, Theatre Department, York University, Toronto
  • 2020 Teaching Assistant in “Sex, Drugs and Theatre”, Theatre Department, York University, Toronto
  • 2019 Teaching Assistant in “Art in the City”, Art History Department, York University, Toronto
  • 2014 Teacher of Creative Cartography using theatre and games for Afghan migrant youths at Kousha Institute, Tehran