Dr. Kathryn Spellman Poots is Associate Professor at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. Her areas of interest include Shi'i Muslims in Europe, the Iranian Diaspora, transnational migration networks, and gender and religious practices in the Middle East and North Africa. Her publications include the monograph: Religion and Nation: Iranian Local and Transnational Networks in Britain (2005) and the co-edited volumes Ethnographies of Islam (2012) and Political Aesthetics of Global Protests: The Arab Spring and Beyond (2014). She sits on the Editorial Board of the Middle East in London magazine at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London. She has been involved in organisations that focus on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK, including the London Detainee Support Group.

Sociology

Gender/Women's Studies

Diaspora/Refugee Studies

Iranian Studies

Islamic Studies

Europe

All Middle East

Iran