Erin Kelso is a Research Associate and PhD candidate with the Volkswagen Freigeist project "The Populism of the Precarious: Marginalization, Mobilization, and Mediatization of South Asia's Religious Minorities". In conjunction with this project, she is researching the role of Christian and Hindu women in political movements in Pakistan. Through her fieldwork, she will investigate how minority women mobilize and represent their communities in Pakistan in the era of social media.

Erin completed her MA in South Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg in 2020 with a minor in Communication, Literature & Media in Modern South Asian Languages. Her research interests include religious minorities in South Asia, the anthropology of values, and the Muslim diaspora in Europe.