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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References

  1. 1 2 "Global Cafe: Contests of Inclusion: A Comparative Ethnography of Iranians in the U.S. & Canada". University of Nebraska-Lincoln. February 17, 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Dr. Amy Malek Joins the School of Global Studies as Assistant Professor". States News Service. August 24, 2022 – via Gale Academic OneFile.[ permanent dead link ]
  3. ↑ Moghaddari, Sonja (2020). "Localizing Iranian diaspora politics: A comparative approach to transnational critique and incorporation". Confluences Méditerranée (in French). 113 (2): 77–89. doi:10.3917/come.113.0077. ISSN   1148-2664. S2CID   226593150.
  4. 1 2 Johnston, Holly; Omar, Shahla (October 15, 2020). "Iran's jailed dual nationals: pawns in an IRGC power play". Rudaw.
  5. 1 2 Newcomb, Rachel (April 16, 2020). "Iranian Americans' stories of rejection and belonging". The Washington Post . ISSN   0190-8286.
  6. ↑ Amirani, Shoku (2012-09-29). "Tehrangeles: How Iranians made part of LA their own". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  7. ↑ "Art Review: Snapshots from an emerging culture". The Los Angeles Times. 2010-07-12. p. 29. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  8. ↑ "Los Angeles, l'autre capitale de l'Iran". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  9. ↑ Bajoghli, Narges (October 2, 2017). "'The last Iranian Americans': The Trump administration's "Travel Ban 3.0" runs the risk of turning current Iranian Americans into the last of their kind". Al-Monitor . Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  10. ↑ "Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Annual Review". Issu. 2020.
  11. ↑ Parvini, Sarah (2020-11-24). "Iranian diaspora has eyes on new president". The Los Angeles Times. pp. A1, A7. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
  12. ↑ "Found in Translation - Exile as a Productive Experience in the Work of Iranian Artists". Nukta Art, vol. 5, no. 2. December 31, 2010.
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