Paniz Musawi Natanzi is an interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and anti-colonial theory, visual culture, global politics, and war. Her empirical and theoretical work focuses on labor, knowledge production, and migration in Afghanistan and its global political entanglements, with emphasis on Iran, Pakistan and Germany. 

For her doctoral dissertation, she did research in urban Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. After her Ph.D. (SOAS, University of London), she worked as a consultant in policy fields relating to gender, migration, labor, mental health, and prisons in Afghanistan. Previously, she held  Postdoctoral Fellowships at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania. During fall semester, she is teaching as a guest lecturer at the University of Bern. At the moment, Paniz is working on her first book manuscript with the working title The War Mode of Production: Masculinities, Artistic Labor, and Race in Afghanistan.