A PhD student experienced in investigating Indigenous societies under acute environmental conditions and extracting practical insights to identify the distractive impact of certain environmental policies on nature-based cultures. In this regard, I utilize a wide range of qualitative and ethnographic methods to analyze changes in Indigenous communities’ social orders that are tied to the health of their bioregional spaces. My specific concentration is on the religious culture of the Buryats, a Mongolian ethnic group in Russia.

• Ph.D. Candidate in Study of Religion, Started January 2020 – University of Zurich, Switzerland. Dissertation: Collapsing Sanctity: Indigenous Buryats against Sacred Lake Baikal on Olkhon Island, Russia.
• Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology - Sociology of Development, (September 2017 to January 2020) – The Graduate Institute Geneva, Switzerland.
• M.A. in Religious Art Studies, December 2014 – Tabriz University of Islamic Arts, Iran.

• Indigenous Religions
• Ethno-ecology
• Anthropology of Policy
• Sociology of Religion

Geographical Region of expertise

• Inner Asia (Siberia and Mongolia)

• Disarticulated Nomos: The Buryats against Sacred Lake Baikal on Olkhon Island, The Anthropological Journal of European Cultures. 
• Transforming Home: Indigenous Society’s Religious Heritage in the Age of Environmental Problems in Nature and Culture Journal.

• The Hidden Face of Conservation: The Silent massacre of the Gods in the Buryat People’s Bioregions. Virtual Conference on Anthropology and Conservation, Royal Anthropological Institute, 25–29 October 2021: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2021/paper/62380
• Collapsing Sanctity: The Interaction of the Buryats and Sacred Lake Baikal under the Shadow of Pollution. ASA Conference on Responsibility, University of St Andrews, 29 March 2021: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa2021/paper/60533
• Governmental Control and Archives. International Conference on Art, Materiality and Representation, British Museum, 1 June 2018: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2018/paper/40672
• A Comparative Study of Religious Other–Making, Proceedings of the International Conference on Asian Studies, Japan, 2015: https://papers.iafor.org/proceedings/conference-proceedings-acas2015/
• The Representation of Nature in Religious Thought. Proceedings of the International Congress on Culture and Religious Thought, Iran, 2014: https://en.civilica.com/doc/301242/

• Student Fellow in The Royal Anthropological Institute of Britain, 2018 – present.
• Associate Member in Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK, 2018 – present.

• GRC Travel Grant for fieldwork in Olkhon Island, Russia, University of Zürich, 2020
• Two-year Fellowship, Graduate Institute Geneva, 2017-2019
• Honorable Mention, The 2019 International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, 2019

• Persian (native)
• English (fluent)
• Russian(fluent)