Munazza Ebtikar works at the intersection of socio-political memory and history, in Central Asia and the Middle East more broadly. She is currently a Peace Fellow at the Afghanistan Policy Lab at Princeton’s School of Public and International Affairs, specializing in peace, healing, and reconciliation.

Munazza’s research interests include questions related to the politics of history and memory, ethnography, nationalism, conflict resolution, and post-conflict reconstruction. Her work has been published in various journals and public platforms. She received the Azizeh Sheibani Prize from Oxford's Middle East Centre and has been recognized with multiple awards, including the John F. Richards Research Fellowship (which she was awarded three times), as well as support from the British Council and the James Mew Arabic Scholarship.

Munazza is completing her PhD at St John's College, University of Oxford, with a research focus on the politics of memory in wartime Afghanistan. She holds a Master of Philosophy with an emphasis on Political Philosophy from the University of Oxford and three bachelor's degrees from the University of California at Berkeley in Politics of the Middle East, Peace and Conflict Resolution, and Near Eastern Studies with a concentration in Persian Literature.

Munazza has previously served as a research consultant for various organizations including the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) and the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). She has also taught and worked as a research associate at the Oxford Centre for Criminology at the Faculty of Law, Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and Oxford's Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Currently, she is co-leading an archival project on cultural production, aurality, and memory with support from Stanford University’s Public Humanities Program.