In my Master’s, I explored what a sociological film might look like, and in my PhD, focusing on Iranian cinema, I examined how emotions like boredom or uncertainty in Tehran are tied to power and politics.

Alongside this, I have been developing the concept of public sociological film, which grows out of public sociology and documentary filmmaking. These projects came together in my current book, where I explore how documentary and sociology can meet and open up new ways of thinking about using documentary film in teaching and research.

More recently, I’ve been asking how migration studies might look different if we brought in other epistemologies and challenged the dominance of Euro-American perspectives. Coming from everyday life studies and also experiencing migration myself, I focus on decoloniality and on creating space for different ways of knowing.

If I were to choose keywords for my research, they would include public sociology, film, migration, everyday life studies, and decoloniality. But more than words, I see them as threads that weave my work together and hopefully open up a conversation about how we see, feel, and imagine society.