She did her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle and was a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University from 2008 to 2010. She is currently working on her manuscript on Turkish and Moroccan states’ policies of nation-building and their effects on the formation and development of Kurdish and Berber mobilizations, respectively. She has published articles in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, and the European Journal of Turkish Studies.