Academic Appointments

Director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies, UNC-Chaple Hill, 2022-2026.

Chair of the Persian Studies Advisory Committee, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2022-2026.

Director of Persian Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021-2022.

Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2021-2026.

Roshan Institute Associate Professor in Persian Studies and Persian Program Coordinator, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2020-present

Coordinator of Persian program, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2016-present

Roshan Institute Assistant Professor in Persian Studies and Persian Program Coordinator, Department of Asian Studies, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2016-2020

Assistant Professor of International Literature, Department of English and Rhetoric, Georgia College and State University, 2013-2016

Affiliated Faculty and Board Member, Women’s and Gender Studies, Georgia College and State University, 2013-2016

Education
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara, June 2013
Doctoral Emphasis in Feminist Studies, UCSB, 2010
Iranian Studies, Inter-campus Exchange Student, UCLA, 2009
MA, English Literature, California State University of Los Angeles, 2008
MA, English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran, 1999
BA, English Language and Literature, Islamic Azad University, Rudehen, Iran, 1996

Honors and Awards

2021-2022:UNC Faculty of Color and Indigenous Faculty Group Grant, Institute for the Arts and Humanities
2021:UNC Collaborative Online International Learning Grant, The UNC Global Center
2021:UNC Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellowship, Taylor Fellow
2020: UNC Collaborative Online International Learning Grant, The Center of the Middle East and Islamic Studies
2020: The Carlyle Sitterson Award for Teaching First-Year Students, UNC-Chapel Hill
2020: UNC Office of Research Development Publication Grant, Office of Research Development
2019-2020: UNC QEP Integration of Making into Courses Grant, BeAM Program
2019-2020: UNC Research-Related Skills Course Development, Office of Undergraduate Research
2019: UNC Summer School Online Course Conversion Grant
2019: Carolina Asia Center Course Development Grant
2019: UNC Summer School Teaching With Technology Mini-Grant
2018-19: American Institute of Iranian Studies, conference organization grant
2018: IAH Schwab Academic Excellence Award, UNC-Chapel Hill
2017: Junior Faculty Development Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill
2017: University Research Council Research Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill
2016: University Research Council Publication Grant, UNC-Chapel Hill
2016: NYU-AD grant to organize a conference in Abu Dhabi
2015: Faculty Research Grant, GCSU
2014: The Hammed Shahidian Critical Feminist Award for my paper “Female Sexuality and Temporary Marriage in Ebrahim Golestan’s “Esmat’s Journey'”, Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation
2013: Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity Mini Grant, GCSU
2013: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2012-13
2013: Nominated for Foundation for Iranian Studies Dissertation Award
2013: Nominated for Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation in Humanities, Middle East Studies Association
2013: Nominated for Lancaster Dissertation Award, UCSB
2012: Scholarly Research Collaboration Funding, UCSB Graduate Division, November
2012: Jafar and Shokoh Farzaneh Prize for my paper “Coexistence of Diverse Voices in Farid al-Din ‘Attar Nishapuri’s Sufi Poetry”
2012: Block Grant Stipend Award, UCSB Comparative Literature Program, fall
2012: Center for Middle East Studies Conference Travel Grant, UCSB
2012: Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Nomination
2011-2012: Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCSB
2011, 2012: Mellichamp Travel Grant, UCSB Religious Studies Department
2011: The Horst Frenz Prize nomination for the conference paper “Sacred versus Profane: Transgressive Homo-erotic Love in Sufi Poetry, ” presented at ACLA
2011: Academic Senate Travel Grant, UCSB
2010, 2011: Mellichamp Research Fellowship, UCSB Religious Studies Department
2010: Travel Grant, UCSB Comparative Literature Program
2010: Block Grant Stipend Award, UCSB Comparative Literature Program, winter

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