Amina Tawasil is an anthropologist interested in ethnographic and theoretical framings of anonymity, slow labor, and affect. She has been serving as a faculty lecturer in the Programs in Anthropology at Columbia University's Teachers College since 2017. She has published several articles from her fieldwork in the Islamic Republic of Iran on seminarian women, and has recently published a book entitled, Paths Made by Walking: The Work of Howzevi Women in Iran through Indiana University Press. Previously, she taught at the International Studies Institute, the University of New Mexico after serving as the inaugural Andrew W. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Middle East and North African Studies program, with courtesy appointment in the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University. She teaches graduate level courses on ethnographic methods, globalization, dynamics of family interaction, and urban situations. She is currently completing her fourth year of ethnographic fieldwork among graffiti writers in New York City, Philadelphia and urban New Jersey, which she has published a chapter on in the Ethnography of Reading at Thirty edited volume.