Join us for Global Cafe with Anthropologist and Iranian diaspora expert Dr. Amy Malek from Princeton University for a talk titled: Contests of Inclusion: A Comparative Ethnography of Iranians in the U.S. & Canada on Tuesday, 2/25, 11:00AM-12:30PM in Oldfather 827.
Amy Malek is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in the intersections of citizenship and cultural production in the Iranian diaspora. She is an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies and Assistant Professor of International Studies at the College of Charleston. Her current book project is a transnational comparative ethnography building on over a decade of research among Iranians in Sweden, Canada, and the United States. Dr. Malek’s previous research has been published in Memory Studies, The Middle East Journal, Anthropology of the Middle East, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, and Iranian Studies.