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Niki Akhavan
Catholic University of America
Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Media Studies, 105 Marist Hall
620 Michigan Ave, NE Catholic University of America
Washington DC 20064
United States
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Gender/Women's Studies
Iranian Studies
Identity/Representation
Media
Translation
Transnationalism
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Central Asia
Iran
Specialties
New Media And National Identity; New Media And Nat
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Persian (native)
Education
PhD | 2007 | Hist of Consciousness | U of California, Santa Cruz
MA | 2000 | Philos | U of Illinois, Chicago
BA | 1997 | Philos | U of California, Berkeley
Abstracts
‘Soft War’ and the Hardline: New Media Battlefields in Iran Family Affairs: New Media, the State, and Women in Iran On the Homefront? Women's Memoirs and the Iran-Iraq War