Minoo Moallem

Minoo Moallem is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies Department at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, University of California Press, 2005, the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State, Duke University Press, 1999, and the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees. Trained as a sociologist, she writes on transnational and postcolonial feminist studies, religious nationalism and transnationalism, consumer culture, immigration and diaspora studies, Middle Eastern studies and Iranian cultural politics and diasporas. Professor Moallem has recently ventured in digital media. Her digital project “Nation-on-the Move” (design by Eric Loyer) was published in Vectors: Journal of Culture and Technology in a Dynamic Vernacular (Special issue on Difference, Fall 2007). She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, “Nation as Transnational Commodity: The Mobile World of the Persian Carpet.” She is also working on a research project on material and visual cultures of religion, and a project on Iran-Iraq war movies and masculinity.