Her PhD was on Anglophone representations of Afghanistan at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge for which she was awarded the best dissertation prize by Clare Hall, Cambridge. She was previously the Editor in Chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs. She is co-editor (with Alex Anievas and Robbie Shilliam) of Race and Racism in International Relations: Confronting the Global Colour Line, Routledge 2014.