Minoo Moallem
Professor at the Department of Gender and Womens Studies and Director of Media Studies
Office Hours
Check back in January 2023 for Spring 2023 Schedule.
Fall 2020
Office Hours – Thursdays 11am – 12pm, or by appointment
If you have a Media Studies advising question, email mediastudies_advising@berkeley.edu. Do not email Director Moallem.
If you are an intended or declared Media Studies major, you may also schedule an appointment with a Media Studies Student Academic Advisor. See below:
Laura Demir
https://laura-demir.youcanbook.me
Chelsea Prieto
http://calendly.com/chelseaip
If you are a declared Media Studies major, you can email or meet with your Media Studies Faculty Advisor too. Your Media Studies Faculty Advisor is based on the first initial of your last name. See below:
A through G – Dr. Ian Davis
iankdavis@berkeley.edu
https://iankdavisberkeley.youcanbook.me
H through O – Dr. Josh Jackson
joshjackson@berkeley.edu
https://joshjackson.youcanbook.me
P through Z – Dr. Meeta Rani Jha
meetarani65@berkeley.edu
https://meetarani65.youcanbook.me/
Professor Moallem 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, University of California Press, 2005, the co-editor (with Caren Kaplan and Norma Alarcon) of Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms and The State, Duke University Press, 1999, and the guest editor of a special issue of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East on Iranian Immigrants, Exiles and Refugees. She has published in many academic journals including Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Feminist Studies, Meridians: feminism, race, and transnationalism, Sociologies et Sociétés, Das Argument, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, Brown Journal of World Affairs, Nimeye Digar, Documentation Sur La Recherche Feministe, and Journal of Feminist Studies of Religion. She is currently working on a book manuscript entitled, Filmic Archive, National Memory, and Iran-Iraq War Movies, and a new research project on gender and the politics of petroleum. Trained as a sociologist, she writes on transnational and postcolonial feminist studies, commodity cultures, cultural studies, immigration and diaspora studies, Middle Eastern studies, and Iranian cultural politics and diasporas.
Professor Moallem has also ventured in 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 (Special issue on Difference, Fall 2007).
Professor Moallem was the recipient of UC Berkeley Chancellor Award for Public Service in 2010.
Professor Moallem was highlighted in the Undergraduate Journal of Sociology in April 2020.
Professor Moallem is affiliated faculty with Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Berkeley Center for New Media; Center for the Study of Race and Gender, Science; Technology and Society Center; Blum Center for Developing Economies; Latinx Research Center; Center for the Comparative Study of Right-Wing Movements; Graduate Group in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Center for New Racial Studies, A Multi-Campus Research Program.
- mmoallem@berkeley.edu
- 628 Barrows Hall (currently remote)