I am an interdisciplinary feminist scholar working at the intersection of political geography, critical human rights, and anticolonial feminist theories. My research theorizes how activists negotiate legibility, recognition, and political agency under authoritarian and geopolitical constraints, with a focus on environmental and social justice and transnational feminist solidarities. My current project examines women’s contributions to early modern astronomy and the politics of cartographic and archival silence.
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Political geography, human rights, decolonial feminist theory, social movements, Iran
GEOG 2092 - Advanced Introduction to Human Geography
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Spring 2022
Provides a rigorous introduction to key analytical concepts of human geography - place, space, scale, regions, nature, landscapes and territory - while giving an overview of topics addressed in subfields including economic geography, political geography, cultural geography and development geography. Specific topics may vary slightly from semester to semester but will likely include borders and migration, maps, tourism, climate change and the Anthropocene, geopolitical conflict, development, urbanization, nationalism, gender, race, inequality and identity.
GEOG 3672 - Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography
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Spring 2021 / Spring 2022 / Summer 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 / Summer 2025 / Spring 2026
This course will examine how gender and sexuality is constructed locally, nationally, and globally, drawing on conversations about feminist pasts, presents, and futures. We will focus on how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, ability, religion, ethnicity, and geopolitical location to structure the lived experiences of women across the globe. We will apply critical geographic perspectives to gender inequality, exploring the overlaps and differences in women�s and LGBTQ+ struggles as they are shaped by ongoing socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions globally. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1962 or GEOG 1972 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092 or WGST 2000 or WGST 2600. Same as WGST 3672.
GEOG 3682 - International Development: Economics, Power, and Place
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Fall 2019
Learn about global economic and political inequalities through international development programs. Understand why some countries are in conditions of cyclical poverty while others experience massive economic growth and wealth. We will examine different approaches to economic development and critically consider existing and future planning. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1962 or GEOG 1972 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092.
GEOG 3742 - Place, Power, and Contemporary Culture
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Spring 2020 / Fall 2020 / Spring 2021
Examines the relationship between places, power, and the dynamics of culture. Explores how the globalization of economics, politics, and culture shapes cultural change. Looks at how place-based cultural politics both assist and resist processes of globalization. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1962 or GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2092.
GEOG 4990 - Senior Thesis
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Spring 2022
Offers thesis research under faculty supervision. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Instructor consent required.
GEOG 6950 - Master's Thesis
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Fall 2022 / Spring 2023 / Summer 2023
Instructor consent required.
WGST 3672 - Who Runs the World? Sex, Power, and Gender in Geography
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Spring 2022 / Summer 2023 / Spring 2024 / Summer 2024 / Fall 2024 / Summer 2025 / Spring 2026
This course will examine how gender and sexuality is constructed locally, nationally, and globally, drawing on conversations about feminist pasts, presents, and futures. We will focus on how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality, ability, religion, ethnicity, and geopolitical location to structure the lived experiences of women across the globe. We will apply critical geographic perspectives to gender inequality, exploring the overlaps and differences in women�s and LGBTQ+ struggles as they are shaped by ongoing socio-cultural, political, and economic conditions globally. Recommended prerequisite: GEOG 1982 or GEOG 1992 or GEOG 2002 or GEOG 2412 or WGST 2000 or WGST 2600. Same as GEOG 3672.
WGST 4800 - Senior Colloquium in Feminist Studies
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Spring 2023 / Spring 2024 / Spring 2025 / Spring 2026
Provides students with the opportunity to actively reflect on their education and to complete a research project that incorporates an interdisciplinary and feminist approach to the study of gender, class, race, ethnicity and sexuality. Offered each spring.
WGST 6090 - Feminist Theories
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Spring 2025
Explores how feminist theorists have understood gender and how it interrelates to our understandings of race, ethnicity, sexuality, embodiment and knowledge. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.
WGST 6290 - Special Topics in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Fall 2025
Offers interdisciplinary feminist perspectives on different special topics such as gender and war, gender and globalization, women's social movements, gender and citizenship, gender and collective memory, and cultural representations of gender and sexuality. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Meets the requirements for the WGST certificate.
WGST 6959 - Master's Thesis in Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Fall 2025
Registration intended for students conducting a project of original research that culminates in a master�s level thesis and oral defense. Required of every master�s degree candidate under the thesis plan of study option.
