SCHOLARSHIP

Books

(November 2020). Television and the Afghan culture wars: Brought to you by foreigners, warlords, and activists. Urbana, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, Geopolitics of Information. (won the Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award of 2021 at the International Communication Association)

(Forthcoming). Osman, W. & Crews, R. D. Afghanistan: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(Forthcoming). Osman, W. & Crews, R. D., & Zeweri, H. (Eds.) Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering imperial knowledge and power. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.

Articles

  • Between the White House and the Kremlin: A Comparative Analysis of Afghan and Tajik Media

  • On Media, Social Movements, and Uprisings: Lessons from Afghanistan, Its Neighbors, and Beyond

  • The Fog of the Forever War with a Laugh Track in “United States of Al”

  • Building Spectatorial Solidarity against the “War on Terror” Media-Military Gaze

  • Decolonizing Transnational Feminism: Lessons from the Afghan and Iranian Feminist Uprisings of the Twenty-First Century Item

Chapters in Edited Volumes

2023 - Afghan television drama: Balancing entertainment with the realities of war. In C. Salamandra & N. Halabi, Middle Eastern television drama: Politics, aesthetics, practices. London, UK: Routledge.

  • “Trashy tastes” and permeable borders: Indian and Iranian soap operas on Afghan television

  • Modern Afghanistan: The impact of 40 years of war

  • Jamming the simulacrum: On drones, virtual reality, and real wars.

  • Media and imperialism in the global village: A case study of four Malalais.

Book Reviews

Academic Awards & Fellowships

Spring 2023 - Center for Experimental Ethnography Fellowship, UPenn

2021-2022 - Klein College Faculty Research Award

2020-2022 - Jack G. Shaheen Research Grant, New York University

2021 - ACSJ Outstanding Book Award, Activism, Communication, and Social Justice interest group, International Communication Association

2016-2017 - Visiting Scholar, Center for Media, Culture, and History, NYU

2014-2015 - Regional Fellow, Wolf Humanities Center, Theme: Color

2014-2015 - Faculty Fellow, Center for the Humanities, Temple University

2013-2014 - Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Science Research Council, Transregional Research: Inter-Asian Contexts and Connections

2012-2013 - Visiting Scholar, Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies

Summer 2011 - Council for Media and Culture Summer Field Research Grant

2009-2010 - Social Science Research Council (SSRC), International Dissertation Research Fellowship; Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Turkey

Spring 2009 - Mainzer Fellowship in Gender Studies, University of Cambridge, UK

2008-2009
 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Tajikistan

Summer 2008
- Council for Media and Culture Summer Field Research Grant

2003-2004 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, New York University

Summer 2003 - Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, New York University