PhD Candidate
Fields of Study
- Islamic Studies
Areas of Interest
- Shi’ism
- Transnational Islam
- Anthropology of Islam
- Iran
Biography
Parnia is a PhD candidate at the department. She holds a Master’s degree from the University of British Columbia in Interdisciplinary Studies with focuses on gender and Islamic jurisprudential texts.
As an anthropologist of Islam, her PhD research is shaped around the phenomenological perceptions and practices of waiting, hope, and future among Shi’i communities.