Naveen is a DPhil student at the Faculty of History interested in studying nostalgia, emotions, and history writing. Her thesis looks at these themes within Urdu, Hindi, and English language histories of Lucknow written during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Naveen holds a BA in History from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan and a MA in South Asia Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. She is also interested in public history practices and has been a part of archival and oral history projects in Pakistan and the United States.