Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
ABOUT
As a scholar of gender, sexuality, religion, and culture, my research explores modern gender ideologies in the Middle East, specifically in Iran. Contributing to literatures on gender and sexuality in the Middle East, Islamic cultures, and cultural globalization, affect and emotions, my work investigates how these ideologies and the processes that mold them are shaped by local, national, and global forces. I am currently a lecturer at UCLA.
Discipline
Sociology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Ethnography
Foreign Relations
Gender/Women's Studies
Globalization
Identity/Representation
Islamic Law
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Nationalism
Pop Culture
Queer/LGBT Studies
State Formation
Theory
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Specialties
Shia Mourning Rituals, Iran-Iraq War, Martyrdom, P
Languages
Persian (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Gender Studies
| UCLA
MA
| 2009
| Mass Communication
| California State University, Northridge
Abstracts
A Modern Iranian Is a Happy Iranian: Globalization and Politics of Emotions in post-Revolutionary Iran
The Messianic Generation: Current Politics of Mourning Rituals in Iran
Singing the Song of Freedom: Mourning Rituals in Yazd
Hijab Propaganda and the Reinforcement of Hostile Masculinity in Post-Revolutionary Iran
