Minoo Moallem

Minoo Moallem is a Gender & Women's Studies professor at the University of California Berkeley. She was the director of the Media Studies Program from 2017 to 2023 and the department chair from 2010 to 2012. Before moving to Berkeley, she was the Women's Studies department chair at SF State from 2001-2006. She is the author of  Persian Carpets: The Nation as a Transnational Commodity (Routledge, 2018). Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Cultural Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, (the University of California Press, 2005), and the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and The State, (Duke University Press, 1999). She is the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East on Iranian Immigrants, Exiles, and Refugees. Professor Moallem has also ventured into 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.  Her new co-edited book with Paola Bacchetta is Fatema Mernissi for Our Times, forthcoming from Syracuse University Press in March 2025.

Moallem is the author of many articles and book chapters in English, French, and Farsi. Her most recent articles and book chapters include "Weaving Connections: Carpet Art, Community + Environment"  2023, de Young\Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; March 2023, "Networks of Relationalities through the Lens of Material Culture" In The Routledge Companion to Intersectionalities, Edited By Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto 2023; Right-Wing Studies: A Roundtable on the State of the Field (pdf) 2022; "Gender, Race, and Religion: Islamophobia and Beyond," in Meridians. Feminism, Race, and Transnationalism (2021); "The Figure of the Martyr in Iran-Iraq Postwar Movies," in Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East( 2022); "Dowreh Series: Mimi Thi Nguyen and Minoo Moallem in Conversation," Jadaliyya ( 2021)"Gender and Culture," Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition, ( 2019); "Reflections on Doing Digital Humanities in the Context of the Middle East" in Routledge Handbook of Middle East Politics (2020); "Staging Masculinity in Iran-Iraq War Movies" in Handbook on Asian Cinema edited by Aaron Magnan-Park, Gina Marchetti, and Tan See-Kam, Palgrave, (2018); "The Unintended Consequences of Equality Within Difference," Brown Journal of World Affairs, fall 2015; "Revisiting the Mostazaf and the Mostakbar," in Feminist Futures, New edition, Zed Press, 2016; Aestheticizing Religion: Sensorial Visuality and Coffeehouse Painting in Iran" in Sensational Religion edited by Sally Pomey, Yale University Press, 2015, and "Praying Through the Senses.

She is currently working on a book manuscript provisionally entitled Filmic Archive, National Memory, and Iran-Iraq War Movies; a research project on Woven connectivities and Ecological Imagination; and another project on Gender and The Politics of Petroleum.

Moallem is affiliated with the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Berkeley Center for New Media; Center for the Study of Race and Gender, Science, Technology and Society Center, Department of Near Eastern Studies; Blum Center for Developing Economies; Berkeley Center for Right-Wing Studies; Folklore Graduate Group, Graduate Group in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Center for New Racial Studies, A Multi-Campus Research Program. Professor Moallem received the UC Berkeley Chancellor's Award for Public Service in 2010. Moallem has delivered numerous national and international keynotes and talks.