Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi

Associate Professor - Middle East Studies
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Visiting address Niels Henrik Abels vei 36 P. A. Munchs hus 0371 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1010 Blindern 0315 Oslo
Other affiliations Institutt for pedagogikk (Student)

Academic interests

Iranian studies; Gender and Sexuality; Women's Movements; Cyberactivism and Counterpublics; Political Islam; Politics of class, sex, and race; Postcolonial and Feminist Theory; Subaltern Studies

Higher education and employment history

I am a feminist scholar and women's activist who earned a PhD in Iranian Studies in 2013 from the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies at Columbia University in New York City. I also completed two Master's degrees in Human Rights and Middle Eastern Studies in 2004 and 2007, respectively, at the same institution. In New York, I am an Associate Faculty-at-large at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), where I teach primarily online courses on feminism and empire, sexuality, Gayatri Spivak's corpus, and political Islam. Before arriving to Oslo, from 2016-2017 I was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of Religion, Culture and Public Life (IRCPL) at Columbia University, where I was affiliated as Senior Research Scholar until 2019. From 2014-2016, I held a visiting lectureship at Leiden University Institute for Area Studies in the Netherlands and has previously taught for the WEB DuBois Scholar's Institute at Princeton University. I have also interned at UNIFEM, The Economist Intelligence Unit, and other NGOs in New York and Tehran. 

My research has focused on contemporary women's movements, sexuality, and gendered public space in Iran and the modern Middle East. I am currently working on two projects germane to (Iranian) diaspora political entrepreneurs and golden visa investment schemes in the Middle East.

I have co-organized and managed two separate international conference series on populism and pluralism (2017-2019) that took place in Amman, Tunis, Paris, and New York with the IRCPL and the University of Groningen. I have also presented my work at many conferences in the United States, Europe and the Middle East. Recent publications on sexuality, government morality, cyberfeminism, and women's activism in Iran can be found in the Journal of Anthropology of the Middle East, Gender and sexualities in Muslim Cultures, Feminist Media Histories Journal, and the Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World.  My monograph Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran was published by Bloomsbury in January 2021.

I am an original member of the Theory of the Margins Collective, based in Oslo, and the founder and member of the Digging Collective.

Awards, Fellowships, and Grants

  • Independent Research Fund Denmark 2023-2026, "Iran beyond Iran: Diasporic Politics, Transnational Entanglement, and Digital Publics," Co-PI

  • President's Global Innovation Fund 2017, "Religion & the Rise of Populisms: Difference, Dissent, and Tolerance," Institute for Religion, Culture and Public Life, Columbia University

  • Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship 2011-2012 https://www.whiting.org/scholars/past-programs

  • Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Science Jackson Fellowship 2008-09

  • US Department of Education Foreign Language and Area Studies Summer Fellowship 2006

  • Columbia University, Middle East, South Asian, and African Studies Department Summer Travel & Research Fellowship 2005, 2007-11

  • Houtan Foundation Scholarship 2005

Courses Taught

Iran in the World MØNA 2505

Persian E PER3010

Theories & Methods of the Middle East MES4000

Topics in Middle East Politics & Society: Gender & Revolutions: Rethinking the "Women Question" in the Modern Middle East  MES4500

Voices from the Middle East: How to Communicate Research Results MES4610

Master's Thesis in Middle East Studies MES4590

Fieldwork in the Middle East MES4020

(Persian) Readings of the Middle East MES4110

 

 

Tags: Middle East, CIMS, SIMS, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Iran, Gender and sexuality, Gender and Feminist Studies, Gender Theory, Political Islam

Publications

  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). Beh Tou Cheh? (What’s It to You?): Feminist Challenges in Iranian Social Media. In Ampofo, Akosua Adomako & Beoku-Betts, Josephine (Ed.), Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge: Positionalities and Discourses in the Global South. Emerald Group Publishing Limited. ISSN 9781800711716. p. 125–146.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya; Bajalia, Audi George & Al Daghistani, Sami (2021). Introduction to the Special Issue Pluralism in Emergenc(i)es in the Middle East and North Africa. Review of Middle East Studies. ISSN 2151-3481. 54(2), p. 162–173. doi: 10.1017/rms.2021.11. Full text in Research Archive
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2017). A Letter to Foucault: Selectively Narrating the Stories of Secular Iranian Feminists. SCTIW review. ISSN 2374-9288.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2017). Cyberfeminism, Iranian Style Online Feminism in Post-2009 Iran. Feminist Media Histories. ISSN 2373-7492. doi: 10.1525/fmh.2017.3.1.50.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2015). Red Lights in Parks: A Social History of Park-e Razi. OIS. ISSN 2194-3400.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2015). Women and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran: When HIV Meets Government Morality. Anthropology of the Middle East. ISSN 1746-0719. 9(2). doi: 10.3167/ame.2014.090208.

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  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2020). Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Contemporary Iran. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350050037. 256 p.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2015). Can the Secular Iranian Women’s Activist Speak?: Caught between Political Power and the ‘Islamic Feminist’” in Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures. Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN 978-1472414526. 392 p.

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  • Alavi, Samad Josef & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2022). Persisk: pizhame.
  • Alavi, Samad Josef & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2022). Persisk: pizhame.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). The Cunning of Genre Violence: Lila Abu-Lughod.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). Is it possible to decolonize Anthropology: Kamari M Clarke and Ryan C Jobson.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre; Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya & Finbog, Liisa-Ravna (2021). Our History is the Future: Nick Estes.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). Stuart Hall: Paul Gilroy and Ruth Wilson Gilmore.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). “Neither Settler nor Native: Mahmood Mamdani.” .
  • Alavi, Samad & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). Persisk: del.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2021). Persisk: del .
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2020). I am the People: Partha Chatterjee.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2020). Superior: Angela Saini.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2020). Out of the Dark Night: Achille Mbembe.
  • Chattopadhyay, Bodhisattva; Sen, Moumita; Bangstad, Sindre & Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2020). On Decoloniality: Walter D Mignolo.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2008). The Holy Quran’s Attitude towards Women’s Presence in the History of the Prophets. Alhoda International Publication & Distribution. ISSN 9644393309.
  • Batmanghelichi, Kristin Soraya (2019). Iran’s Women Are Not for Turning, Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg.

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