I am a cultural sociologist studying how value, expertise, and inequality are produced across institutions, knowledge systems, and social life. My work brings together cultural sociology, feminist theory, and sociology of knowledge to examine how social hierarchies are built, justified, and contested. I have studied diversity, equity, and excellence in academic knowledge production, as well as gender, intimacy, the body, and public debates in Iran. Across these projects, I examine epistemic inequalities, symbolic and social boundaries, and the cultural processes through which knowledge, identities, and social worth are recognized, ranked, marginalized, or excluded.