Melanie Sadozai is a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies at George Washington University. Her research, based on ethnographic methods and extensive fieldwork since 2014, focuses on cross-border relations in remote areas of Afghanistan and Tajikistan in the Pamir Mountains. Her interests include everyday life along the border, remoteness and connectivity in high mountain regions, relations between the Taliban and other Central Asian governments, and geographical history of the border and the Pamirs. She has published academic pieces in the Journal of Borderlands Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, and the Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies.