Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Department of Sociology
155 Hamilton Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
NC
27599-3210
United States
ABOUT
I am a PhD student in the department of sociology in the University of North Carolina. I received my first MA degree in political science at the University of Tehran in 2007. My thesis investigated the failure of the democratization in Iran between 1997 and 2005. I argued that democratization failed because it was not accompanied with enough contentious collective action from below. This work was defamed in 2009 in the Iranian National News Agency as an action plot behind the massive protests in that year following the fraudulent election in June.
In my second master thesis in sociology “Alliances, Perception Profiles, Opportunities, and Threats in the Iranian Reform Movement, 1997-2005?, I examined the shifting alliances within the Iranian Reform Movement. This paper is forthcoming in the American Sociological Review, and was awarded the 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper by the Collective Behavior and Social Movement (CBSM) section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).
In my dissertation I investigate popular uprisings with democratic demands. In this project I engage with themes such as cross-class alliances, violence, and elections.
I am currently an associate editor for Social Forces.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
Comparative
Democratization
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Middle East/Near East Studies
State Formation
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Islamic World
Turkey
Specialties
Demcoztn
Non-democratic Regimes
Soc Mvmts
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (native)
Turkish (elementary)
Education
MIA
| 2007
| Pol Sci
| U of Tehran
BA
| 2005
| Pol Sci
| U of Tehran
Abstracts
Contested perceptions of opportunity and threats and Changing Coalitions Within Iran's reform Movement (1997-2005)
Electoral Opportunities and Emotional Energies: Evidence from 2009 Iranian Green Movement
