Her thematic interests include: Bangladesh's riparian society, ecological consciousness, and climate change as well as Pakistan's religion, urban anthropology, and law. She earned her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University and was recently a research fellow for the American Institute for Bangladesh Studies and the Wenner-Gren Foundation, both for her research in Bangladesh. Khan is the author of Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan (Duke University Press, 2012), and the editor of Beyond Crisis: Re-evaluating Pakistan (Routledge India, 2010).