Mana Kia
Ph.D., History and Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University (2011)
M.A., Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2001)
B.A., International Studies, Vassar College (1997)
- Vergleichende Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte West-, Zentral- und Südasien (18.-20. Jahrhundert)
- Britische Kolonialgeschichte in Südasien
- Gender und Sexualität
- Koloniale Moderne und Antikolonialer Nationalismus
- Kontinuitäten und Brüche zwischen frühneuzeitlicher und moderner Periode
“Imagining Iran before Nationalism: Geocultural Meanings of Land in Azar’s Ātashkadah,” in Rethinking Iranian Nationalism, ed. Kamran Aghaie and Afshin Marashi (University of Texas Press, forthcoming).
“Accounting for Difference: A Comparative Look at the Autobiographical Travel Narratives of Muhammad ‘Ali Hazin Lahiji and ‘Abd al-Karim Kashmiri.” Journal of Persianate Studies 2 (2009): 210-236 (co-editor with Sunil Sharma of this special issue, entitled The Eighteenth Century Fracturing of the Persianate World).
co-authored with Afsaneh Najmabadi and Sima Shakhsari, “Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Historiography of Modern Iran." In Iran in the 20th Century: Historiography and Political Culture, ed. Touraj Atabaki. London: I.B. Tauris, 2009. 177-197.
“Negotiating Women’s Rights: Activism, Class, and Modernization in Pahlavi Iran.” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25,1 (2005): 227-244.