Mahbubeh Moqadam

I am a second year Ph.D. student. While in Iran pursuing a master's degree in Gender Studies, I was fortunate to work as the senior assistant with the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran project ( http://www.qajarwomen.org/en/ ), which is a unique digital archive under supervision of Professor Afsaneh Najmabadi hosted at Harvard University. Before arriving in the US, I did some graduate studies in Sociology in Turkey at Middle East Technical University (METU) and Ankara University. There, my research was centered around transnational feminist solidarities. In Turkey, I also collaborated with KAOSGL, Gay and Lesbian Cultural Studies and Solidarity Association and the United Nations (UN) in their projects related to LGBTQI refugees in Turkey. I earned a Master’s in Sociology, Maxwell School, and advanced certification in Gender Studies from Syracuse University. While there I had the opportunity to work with Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) project ( http://feministfreedomwarriors.org/ ), which is a digital project hosted at Syracuse University, department of Women and Gender Studies under supervision of Professor Chandra Talpade Mohanty and Professor Linda Carty. I work on diverse and intersectional topics including feminist movements in the Middle East and the genealogy of women’s rights movements in Iran using digital technology to analyze various available archives. My current research interests are informed by my extensive work in social movements in Iran and Turkey leading me to my project which is focused on studying various aspects of the current social movements in Iran with focus on the youth and women under the supervision of Professor Asef Bayat.