Nabiya Khan is a PhD student in Anthropology at Rice University. Her work looks at how state power and governance take shape in the ordinary rhythms of everyday life. Her research sits at the intersection of the anthropology of the state and infrastructure, focusing on how cities and neighborhoods are shaped by histories of inequality and ongoing regimes of surveillance. She thinks of this work in terms of the infrastructure of oppression and the oppression of infrastructure: how systems built for governance shape everyday life, and how they leave their mark on the places people inhabit. Alongside her academic work, she writes on politics in India and works across English/ Hindi/Urdu. She also writes poetry, mostly in Urdu.