Nabiya Khan is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at Rice University. Her research focuses on the formation of political subjectivities among Indian Muslim women, with a focus on everyday life, memory, and resistance. She is interested in how marginalized communities navigate structures of state power and communal violence, and how women’s embodied practices challenge hegemonic narratives of citizenship, belonging, and nationhood. Her work engages ethnographic and historical methods to explore the intersections of gender, religion, and the state in contemporary India. Nabiya holds a B.A. (Hons) and an M.A. in History from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. 

Outside academia, she writes poetry, mostly to cope with footnotes, frameworks, and the weight of “therefore."