Mahbubeh Moqadam

My scholarship has been shaped in conversation with different geographies and struggles—across Iran, Turkey, and the United States—through sociological training, archival work, and feminist collaborations. In Iran, where I earned a B.A. in Sociology and an M.A. in Women's and Family Studies, I began tracing the everyday practices through which women craft resistance. I also worked as the senior research assistant for Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran, a digital archive hosted at Harvard University, curating and digitizing women’s histories to make visible lives long silenced. In Turkey, at Middle East Technical University and Ankara University, I pursued research on transnational feminist solidarities while collaborating with UN projects on LGBTQI+ refugees. Later, in the United States, I completed a Master’s in Sociology at Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs and an advanced certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at Syracuse University, contributing to the Feminist Freedom Warriors project, a digital oral-history initiative documenting transnational feminist struggles. These trajectories, anchored in "common differences", ground my scholarship in comparative and transnational approaches to resistance, youth, digital activism, and social change.