My work spans across media and cultural history, religious studies, Iranian Studies, and digital humanities, with a focus on late-modern Iran from the mid-nineteenth century onwards. I am currently a postdoctoral researcher on the Vidi project Iran’s Secular Shift: A Mixed Methods Approach to Nonreligion and Atheism in an Islamic Republic (2025–2030), led by Dr. Pooyan Tamimi Arab. My project examines media coverage of debates on political secularism in Iranian journalism, with particular attention to Iranian diaspora media since 2009. It develops advanced computational methods for large-scale textual analysis and offers new perspectives on the relationship between twenty-first-century journalism and religious and non-religious dynamics.

I have published two monographs, and several articles and book chapters on the media and cultural history of Iran's modernity. My academic background includes English Language and Culture (B.A.), Media and Performance Studies (M.A.), and Philosophy and Religious Studies (Ph.D.). My first monograph, Irrationalities in Islam and Media in Nineteenth-Century Iran (2022), offers a media-archaeological perspective on the Iranian context. The book aims to establish a theoretical and archival foundation for a cultural history of modern media and religious change in Iran. My second monograph is Remembering Umar Khayyam: Episodes of Unbelief in the Reception Histories of Persian Quatrains (2025). The book offers new insights into the interplay of religion, memory, and literature in Iran's history of secular thought. It centres on the continued reception of Omar Khayyām’s poetry from the medieval to the late modern period. I am currently working on a third monograph on the cultural history of early radio in Iran. My latest article Wire Exorcism: Radio Berlin Persian Service and the Making of Wireless Modernity in Iran has been published by the Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 

As a member of the Department of Religious Studies, I have contributed to the Research Master's program in Religious Studies from 2022 to 2024, where I taught “Core Themes in the Study of Religions”. 

I have been awarded an NIAS Individual Fellowship, which will begin in February 2027. This project explores the history of mediatisation and right-wing populism in Iran during the early Cold War, with a particular focus on the interaction between radio broadcasting and press journalism.