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ABOUT
Shervin Malekzadeh is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colgate University where he is completing a book manuscript on post-revolutionary schooling in Iran from the perspective of ordinary families and local officials tasked with educating “the New Islamic Citizen.” Prior to coming to Colgate, he served as Visiting Professor of Comparative Politics at Williams College and Swarthmore. Shervin received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University. A former kindergarten teacher and a regular visitor to Iran, as well as an accidental participant in the 2009 Green Movement, his commentaries on democracy and popular culture in Iran and the US have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, and on France 24 and NPR, among others. Shervin’s research and publications are available at his academic website, www.shervinmalekzadeh.com.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
Education
Cultural Studies
Iranian Studies
Cinema/Film
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Specialties
Schooling And Identity Formation. The Connection
Languages
Persian (native)
Portuguese (intermediate)
Spanish (advanced)
Education
BA
| 1996
| International Relations
| Stanford University
Abstracts
Reading "Baba Ab Dad" in Tehran: The Development of Religion, Politics, and Citizenship in Postrevolutionary Iranian Primers, 1979-2008
Friday Morning Cartoons: The Subversive Potential of Children's Textbooks and Television Programming in the Islamic Republic of Iran (1979-1999)
The Figure of the Forlorn Arab as Nationalist Foil in the Curriculum of Postrevolutionary Iran
