Nazanin Shahrokni

Nazanin Shahrokni is an Associate Professor in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), with a secondary appointment as Assistant Professor of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from UC Berkeley (2009), an M.A. from Allameh Tabataba’i University (Iran), and a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Shahid Beheshti University (Iran). Her research bridges feminist geography, gender and globalization studies, and ethnographies of the Middle Eastern state, focusing on gender segregation, transnational activism, and the impacts of economic sanctions.

Her award-winning book Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (2020) examines spatial expressions of gender inequality in Iran, winning the Latifeh Yarshater Book Award. Shahrokni’s work has been published in journals like Humanity Journal, Globalizations, and Feminist Studies, and she serves on editorial boards for Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies and Middle East Report.

Her research has been supported by grants including the Global Religion Initiative’s Curriculum Development Grant and the American Sociological Association’s Carla B. Howery Teaching Enhancement Grant. She teaches courses on Middle East politics, urban segregation, and gender theories, receiving multiple teaching awards from LSE.

Shahrokni’s professional roles include Executive Committee Member of the International Sociological Association and Visiting Researcher appointments at Lund University and Harvard University. Her work critically explores how gendered bodies are situated within global political processes, linking localized practices to transnational systems of power.