Azmat Khan, M.A.

Specializations: Rhetoric and Culture, Communication for Climate Justice and Resilience, Critical Border Studies and Ethnic Representation, Critical Methodologies in Communication, Media, and Culture Studies Research

Azmat Khan, M.A. belongs to the Pashtun tribal areas of Pakistan. He grew up amidst the raging “war on terror” which significantly shaped his intellectual and professional outlook. He studied Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Peshawar. After graduation, he worked with a World Bank-funded community sustainability project. In 2018, he was awarded an exchange scholarship at the Communication University of China (Beijing) where he did a master's in Intercultural Communication. After returning to Pakistan, he joined Virtual University Pakistan as a lecturer where he gained experience in diverse distance-learning pedagogies and techno-instructional modalities. Azmat’s research interests include environmental/climate communication, border/liminal spaces, public memory, necropolitics, and media marginalization. He also seeks to understand how media underrepresentation and misrepresentation of different groups and communities in Pakistan impact their lives. He is extremely excited and hopeful that he will best utilize all the academic and intellectual resources available at OU to improve his pedagogical and research theoretical and practical skills. Azmat is committed to democratizing and bringing academia, community and social policymaking closer in his home country.

Pronouns: He/him