Zainab Najeeb is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at Rutgers University. Her research explores the intersections of gender, displacement, and digital and urban infrastructures in postcolonial South Asia. Over the past year, she has been conducting ethnographic fieldwork in Peshawar, Pakistan, focusing on how internally displaced Pashtun women navigate conditions of protracted crisis, cultural expectations, and scarcity.
Before beginning her doctoral studies, Zainab was a Teaching Fellow at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). She holds a dual Master’s degree in Gender and Development from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and the Central European University (CEU). Her broader research interests include gender and migration, digital and social activism, and postcolonial world-making with a regional focus on South Asia.