Research
My research explores how cities remember – and forget. I work across human geography, planning, and cultural studies to trace the emotional and political textures of urban space, particularly in cities marked by conflict, colonialism, and spatial rupture.
Across all my projects, I’m interested in storytelling as method: how it helps us engage with place, grapple with memory, and imagine more just urban futures.I continue to think through urban marginalization, urban heritage, and racialized placemaking.
PhD Research
(Concordia University)
In this SSHRC-funded project, I examine memory-making and spatial storytelling in Belfast and Lahore, using walking methods, planning analysis, and literary engagement to uncover how urban narratives are shaped, silenced, and resurfaced in the aftermaths of spatial trauma.
Masters Research
(Toronto Metropolitan University)
My Major Research Paper focused on long-term planning visions for Toronto’s inner suburban employment lands in Rexdale. I was also a research assistant for Dr. Zhixi Zhuang’s SSHRC-funded project that explored ethnic placemaking in Toronto’s suburban landscape.
Select Awards
- CGS-D SSHRC Scholarship (2022 – 2025)
- SSHRC Storyteller Competition Finalist (2024) – read more about it
- CGS Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement (2023)
- Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling (COHDS) Research Grant (2023)
- NYU Cities Collaborative-Mellon Summer Institute on Urbanism Fellowship (2022)
- Concordia Merit Scholarship (2020 – 2022)
- Concordia Graduate Fellowship (2020 – 2024)