I'm a historian of youth politics and anti-colonial activism. My research asks how young people have imagined more just futures while confronting the efforts of states and empires to shape who they should become. I’m an Assistant Professor in the Youth & Children's Studies program at Wilfrid Laurier University. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University's Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, where I worked after completing my PhD at the University of Toronto.