Critical/Cultural studies

Transcultural Communication

Gender and Sexuality Studies

Visual Culture

Emergent Media

Postcolonial Theory

Queer of Color Critique

South Asia

PhD – University of Oregon (Media Studies): ABD, expected June 2019

Certificate in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies

Certificate in New Media & Culture

MA –  University of Oregon (Communication & Society): 2012

MS –   Boston University (Film/Television Production): 2010

UO SOJC Dissertation Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2018-19 

Jane Grant Dissertation Fellowship, Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), University of Oregon, 2018 (Declined) 

American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Short Term Research Grant, 2018 

Top Graduate Student Paper Award, Cultural and Critical Studies Division, The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Conference, August 2018

Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Oregon, 2016 

American Institute of Pakistan Studies, Summer Research Grant, 2016 

Promising Scholar Award, University of Oregon, 2015

Center for the Study of Women in Society (CSWS), Graduate Student Research Grant, University of Oregon, 2012 

Fulbright Scholarship, Boston University, 2008–2010 

"Reading War Photographs: The 1971 India-Pakistan War in the Anglo-American Press," Visual Communication, April 2019. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1470357219838602

“Aurat Raj: Hacking Masculinity and Reimagining Gender in South Asian Cinema,” Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media & Technology(Special issue ‘Radical Feminist Storytelling and Speculative Fiction’), May 2018. https://adanewmedia.org/2018/05/issue13-mokhtar/

J314: Introduction to Media Studies, Summer 2018

WGS 101: Introduction to Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Winter & Spring 2018

J369: International Communication, Summer 2017

J320: Gender, Media & Diversity, Summer 2016