Anika Kabani

Anika Kabani is a current DPhil candidate in Anthropology at the University of Oxford, a Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholar at the Institute of Ismaili Studies, and a Visiting Research Scholar at the City University of New York Graduate Center’s Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. She is also convener of Migration Oxford, a network that brings together students, researchers, and academics working on migration and mobility from across the University of Oxford’s research centres, divisions, and departments to foster interdisciplinary dialogue and collaborations. Anika holds an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford, an MA in Islamic Studies and Humanities from SOAS, and BAs in Anthropology and International Studies from Washington University in St. Louis. Her doctoral research, supervised by legal anthropologist Dr. Morgan Clarke, ethnographically explores the shaping of Muslim subjectivity through the U.S. humanitarian immigration system, and more generally the experiences of Muslim asylum seekers with a particular geographic focus on New York City. She previously held a Visiting Doctoral Researcher position at New York University School of Law.