Azadeh Ghanizadeh is a graduate candidate and university fellow in the department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University and a graduate research associate in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs, Middle East Studies Program, in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Her research interests are situated in English studies and rhetorical theory focusing on forced population movements from the MENA/SWANA region into the United States. Her article Global Mobility and Subaltern Knowledge appeared in Petiho in December of 2022. Her current project Asylum Industrial Complex: Rhetorics of Human Mobility evaluates how Middle East North African refugees are depicted in news media, films, and institutional settings in the contemporary United States. She has taught courses in Academic Writing and Research as well as Middle East Studies at Oregon State University and Colgate University.