Biography
Supervisor: Morgan Clarke
College Affiliation: Keble College
Thesis title: Negotiating Muslimness: Humanitarian Legal Regimes and the Shaping of the Ideal Muslim Subject
Anika (she/her) is a DPhil candidate in Anthropology in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Her doctoral research broadly explores the interactions between religion and the state in the realm of migration and, more specifically, investigates how migration processes shape the lives of Muslim asylum seekers in New York City. Anika is interested in how legal-bureaucratic spaces manage, shape, and transform religious subjectivities and the relationship this has to the secular forging of 'ideal' Muslim subjects in the United States.
She holds an MSc in Anthropology from the University of Oxford, an MA in Islamic Studies and Humanities from SOAS, and BAs in International and Area Studies and Anthropology from Washington University in St. Louis. She is a current recipient of the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship from the Institute of Ismaili Studies.