She has a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from SUNY Buffalo, a MA in Gender Studies from Central European University in Budapest, and a MA in Philosophy from Moscow State University. Her Fisher Center research project is called “The Deep Time of War: Geological Imagery in Post-9/11 Afghanistan Narrative.” Afghanistan’s wars, she argues, need to be considered as global in the literal sense—the localized operations being complex global events involving multiple forces all fighting for different reasons and operating at different scales—while also figuring as a symbol: of the globe’s interconnectedness, its vulnerability, and the precariousness of its future.