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American professor, sociocultural anthropologist, department chair From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
Amy Malek | |
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Born | c. 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 for | Iranian Diaspora Studies |
Website | http://www.amymalek.com/ |
"...[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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