Paniz Musawi Natanzi is an interdisciplinary feminist scholar and author with research interests in labor, migration, knowledge production, global politics and war. Her empirical and theoretical work focuses on Afghanistan and its global political and aesthetic entanglements, with emphasis on Iran, Pakistan and German-speaking Europe. 

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.

She is currently a Research Associate at the University of Bern and is affiliated with the South Asia Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Paniz is working on her first book manuscript with the working title The War Mode of Production: Masculinities, Artistic Labor, and Race in Afghanistan.