Amy Malek

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Amy Malek
Bornc. 1979/1980
United States
Alma mater Emory University,
New York University,
University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation(s)Chair and Director of a university department, assistant professor, scholar, sociocultural anthropologist
Known forIranian Diaspora Studies
Website http://www.amymalek.com/

Amy Malek (born c. 1979/1980), is an American assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist. [1] She serves as the endowed Chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. [2] Her work focuses on the migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora. [3] Malek is an Iranian-American. [4]

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Education and career

"...[first- and second-generation Iranian Americans are] alternately included and excluded in the only home one has known, while also feeling attachments to a place one may never have experienced and may or may not be welcome even to visit."

–Amy Malek,from My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020) [5]

Malek has a bachelor's degree (2003) from Emory University; and a Master of Arts degree (2005) in Near Eastern studies from New York University. [2] She holds a Ph.D. (2015) in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). [2] While attending UCLA, she took an interest in studying the second generation of Iranian immigrants. [6] [7] [8]

From 2016 to 2022, she was an assistant professor of international studies at the College of Charleston. [1] [4] [9] From 2019 to 2021, Malek was an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. [10] [11] In Fall of 2022, she joined Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. [2]

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