Email: gb2192@columbia.edu
Golbarg Bashi teaches Iranian Studies at Rutgers University. She was born in Iran, raised in Sweden, and educated in Britain. She holds a First Class B.A. (Honors) in Middle Eastern Studies from Manchester University, a M.Sc. in Women's Studies from Bristol University and has recently completed her doctoral thesis on a feminist critique of the human rights discourse in Iran. Her research interests includes the theories and practices of human rights in Iran, modern Iranian social and intellectual history, and women's rights movements in Iran and in a comparative context.
Her latest essay on the current Iranian election crisis has been published in TehranBureau. It is titled "Feminist waves in the Iranian Green Tsunami?"
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