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

Speaker Bio

Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi is a feminist scholar and women's activist who earned a PhD in Iranian Studies in 2013 from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University in New York City. She has also completed two Master's degrees in Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies in 2004 and 2007, respectively, at the same institution. Her research has focused on contemporary women's movements, sexuality, and gendered public space in Iran and the modern Middle East. She is currently working on two projects germane to (Iranian) diaspora political entrepreneurs and golden visa investment schemes in the Middle East.

In New York, Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi is an Associate Faculty-at-large at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), where she primarily teaches online courses on feminism and empire, sexuality, Gayatri Spivak's corpus, and political Islam. Before arriving to Oslo, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University, where she was affiliated as Senior Research Scholar until 2019.