She received her doctorate in Education with specializations in International and Comparative Education and Gender and Education from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interdisciplinary and ethnographic research focuses on international development and educational policymaking and implementation, globalization and transnationalism, and gender and education. Dr. Khurshid’s work approaches international education as a site that produces gendered citizenship in different national and cultural contexts. She also studies how global policies to educate and empower women in developing and Muslim countries are translated into local contexts.