Her first book, Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage was published in 2016 (Routledge Iranian Studies Series). Her research has also appeared in Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater: Artistic Developments in the Muslim Cultural Sphere (2011), Islam and Popular Arts (2016), Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity (2016), and the International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016), among others. She is currently working on her second manuscript, a spatial humanities reading of Tehran’s historic entertainment district, while directing the Lalehzar Digital Project, a component of the Roshan Initiative for Digital Humanities.