CMES Seminar: "Iran's Mothers of "Martyrs" Public Dissent in Times of Sorrow"

Speaker Bio

Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi serves as the newly promoted Professor of Modern Iranian Studies in the Department of Culture, Religion, Asian, and Middle Eastern Studies (IKOS) at the University of Oslo. She is also an Associate Faculty-at-large at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR) in New York City.  A feminist scholar and women's activist, she researches and publishes widely on contemporary women's movements, sexuality, and gendered public space in Iran and the modern Middle East. She obtained her PhD in Iranian Studies in 2013 from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University in New York.  Currently, she is working on two research projects on (Iranian) diaspora political entrepreneurs and golden visa investment schemes in the Middle East.