Sima Shakhsari

Associate professor in Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies

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Sima Shakhsari is an associate professor in Gender, Women & Sexualities Studies at the University of Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University.

Educational Background

Ph.D.: Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University
MA: Anthropology, Stanford University
M.A.: Women’s Studies, San Francisco State University
B.S.: Physiology, San Francisco State University

Specialties

Transnational Feminist Theory and Practice
Transnational Queer Theory and Sexuality Studies
Diasporas
Necropolitics
Neoliberalism
Governmentality
Social Media
Refugee Studies
Middle East Studies
Political Anthropology
Cultural and Social Anthropology

Activities

Professional

Anthropology, Sociology, Gender Studies Book Review Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies

Outreach

Navigating Queerness and Trans-ness as an Iranian Immigrant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9aZQPctOiQ.
Sanctions on Iran–Center for Political Education: https://politicaleducation.org/resources/sanctions-on-iran/.
No Sanctions on Iran: https://www.nosanctionsoniran.org/video-campaign.
COVID 19 and Sanctions on Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QucuOsj3qCw.
Teach in at East Side Freedom Library- Iran: What Americans Need to Know: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v-FCE-IZic.
Grassroots Against Sanctions: Iran Podcast: https://anchor.fm/theiranpodcast/episodes/How-Grassroots-Movements-are-Fighting-Sanctions-etjauh/a-a52j1ei.
Anti-Black Racism in South West Asia and North Africa and Diaspora: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyTWDSItNdg.

Research

Imagining Transnational Solidarities: https://icgc.umn.edu/research/imagining-transnational-political-solidarities-and.
UC Berkeley CMES Lecture: Sanctioned Freedom: Weblogistan, Gender, and Liberation in Times of War: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d-jhVgW-U8&t=296s.
Citizenship in Iran and Iraq/UPENN Andrew Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0TZtQ4je08.
Queer States– Conversation with Nadje Al-Ali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeq3KqdjN7I.
Keynote at CASAR/AUB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di3PPmSEZxU&t=11s.
Book Launch at Princeton: https://mediacentral.princeton.edu/media/Book+LaunchA+Sima+Shakhsari%27s+%22Politics+of+Rightful+KillingA+Civil+Society%2C+Gender%2C+and+Sexuality+in+Weblogistan%22/1_6et0d2wq.
NEW Texts Out: Politics of Rightful Killing, Jadaliyya Interview: https://mespi.org/project/politics-of-rightful-killing/.

Awards

Fatema Mernissi Book Award, Honorable Mention, Middle East Studies Association
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wolfe Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania, 2015 – 2016
Postdoctoral Fellowship. GWS Department, University of Houston, 2010 – 2012
Breaking the Silence Award, Gender and Sexuality Center for Queer and Trans Life
Outstanding Teaching and Dedication Award, Center for Educational Innovation
Imagine Funds, Faculty Research Award, UMN
Imagine Funds, Special Events Award, UMN