Experience

  1. Assistant Basic Course Director

    School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University

    Responsibilities include:

    • Provide mentoring and support for our COMM 1020 instructor team (e.g., answering questions/emails, sharing ideas and resources for teaching, and checking in with other team members to help build community).
    • Assist the BCD in conducting classroom observations and provide feedback from those observations for an assigned group of instructors.
    • Participate in the Fall Basic Course Training
    • Attend MC 6970: Teaching Practicum (Fall semester) and tri-weekly staff meetings (spring semester)
    • COMM 1020 Canvas Shells
      • Check shells for completed grading (2-week turnaround policy)
      • Ensure instructors are providing sufficient feedback on assignments
    • Suggest edit course calendar and lesson plan dates for upcoming semesters

  2. Instructor of Record / Teaching Assistant

    School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University
    • Persuasion (Fall 2025)
    • Interpersonal Communication (Spring 2025)
    • Introduction to Public Speaking (Fall 2020 - Fall 2024)

  3. Freelance Book Compilation and Editing Service

    Dr. Amjad Hussain
    • Search, collate, format, and proofread published articles over 30 years
    • Edited, Typeset and Designed the book for the author

  4. Director of Social Media Outreach and Research

    Council for Democracy and Tolerance
    • Led the social media arm of the flagship project “Muslim World Today”
    • Identified, curated and edited relevant news articles from the internet for the website
    • Edited and wrote original research and feature articles for the website
    • Managed a diverse and rotating team of writers, photographers and content creators for the website

Education

  1. PhD Media and Communication

    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
    Dissertation: Communication of Identity Across First, One-and-a-half, and Second-generation Pakistani Immigrant Parents And Children Through Retrospective Storytelling

  2. Graduate Certificate in Women and Gender Studies

    Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA

  3. MPhil Media and Communication

    Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
    Thesis: The Narratives and Counter-Narratives Regarding Malala Yousafzai in Pakistani Print Media

  4. BS Media and Communication

    Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan
Awards
Top Individual Paper in the Feminist and Gender Studies Division
National Communication Association ∙ Present
I was awarded the Top Individual Paper in the Feminist and Gender Studies Division at the 111th National Communication Association Conference for the paper “Elevating Afghan Women’s Discursive Resistance: Contesting the Discursive Cleansing of the Taliban’s Strategic Narratives”
Harold and Elaine Fisher Communication Studies Graduate Award
School of Media and Communication, Bowling Green State University ∙ November 2024
Cultural Ambassador of Pakistan
International Research & Exchanges Board, Washington DC, USA ∙ November 2024