Amy Malek
{{Short description|American professor, sociocultural anthropologist, department chair}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Amy Malek
| image =
| caption = Malek in 2019
| birth_date = c. 1979/1980
| birth_place = United States
| alma_mater = Emory University,
New York University,
University of California, Los Angeles
| occupation = Chair and Director of a university department, assistant professor, scholar, sociocultural anthropologist
| known_for = Iranian Diaspora Studies
| website = http://www.amymalek.com/
}}
Amy Malek (born c. 1979/1980), is an American assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist.{{Cite web |date=February 17, 2020 |title=Global Cafe: Contests of Inclusion: A Comparative Ethnography of Iranians in the U.S. & Canada |url=https://newsroom.unl.edu/announce/sgis/9611/63632 |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=University of Nebraska-Lincoln}} She serves as the endowed chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.{{Cite news |date=August 24, 2022 |title=Dr. Amy Malek Joins the School of Global Studies as Assistant Professor |work=States News Service |url=https://www.link.gale.com/apps/doc/A714887679/AONE?u=wikipedia&sid=ebsco&xid=ccf66ea2 |via=Gale Academic OneFile }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Her work focuses on the migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora.{{Cite journal |last=Moghaddari |first=Sonja |date=2020 |title=Localizing Iranian diaspora politics: A comparative approach to transnational critique and incorporation |url=http://www.cairn.info/revue-confluences-mediterranee-2020-2-page-77.htm?ref=doi |journal=Confluences Méditerranée |language=fr |volume=113 |issue=2 |pages=77–89 |doi=10.3917/come.113.0077 |s2cid=226593150 |issn=1148-2664|url-access=subscription }} Malek is an Iranian-American.{{Cite news |last1=Johnston |first1=Holly |last2=Omar |first2=Shahla |date=October 15, 2020 |title=Iran's jailed dual nationals: pawns in an IRGC power play |work=Rudaw |url=https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iran/151020201}}
Education and career
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| quote = "...[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."
| author = –Amy Malek
| source = from My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020)
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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. She holds a Ph.D. (2015) in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While attending UCLA, she took an interest in studying the second generation of Iranian immigrants.{{Cite news |last=Amirani |first=Shoku |date=2012-09-29 |title=Tehrangeles: How Iranians made part of LA their own |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19751370 |access-date=2022-09-29}}{{Cite news |date=2010-07-12 |title=Art Review: Snapshots from an emerging culture |pages=29 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110393268/art-review-snapshots-from-an-emerging/ |access-date=2022-09-29}}{{Cite news |date=2013-06-06 |title=Los Angeles, l'autre capitale de l'Iran |language=fr |work=Le Monde.fr |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/ameriques/article/2013/06/06/los-angeles-l-autre-capitale-de-l-iran_3425114_3222.html |access-date=2022-09-29}}
From 2016 to 2022, she was an assistant professor of international studies at the College of Charleston.{{Cite web |last=Bajoghli |first=Narges |date=October 2, 2017 |title='The last Iranian Americans': The Trump administration's "Travel Ban 3.0" runs the risk of turning current Iranian Americans into the last of their kind |url=https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2017/10/iran-us-travel-ban-30-americans-trump-visa-restriction.html |access-date=2022-09-29 |website=Al-Monitor |language=en}} 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.{{Cite web |date=2020 |title=Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Annual Review |url=https://issuu.com/princetonu_mossavar-rahmani_center/docs/mrc_ar_issuu_9.14.21 |website=Issu}}{{Cite news |last=Parvini |first=Sarah |date=2020-11-24 |title=Iranian diaspora has eyes on new president |pages=A1, A7 |work=The Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/110394162/iranian-diaspora-has-eyes-on-new/ |access-date=2022-09-29}} In Fall of 2022, she joined Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
Publications
- {{Cite journal |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=September 1, 2006 |title=Memoir as Iranian exile cultural production: A case study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis series |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4311834 |journal=Iranian Studies |publisher=Taylor & Francis, Ltd. |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=353–380|doi=10.1080/00210860600808201 |jstor=4311834 |s2cid=161807564 |url-access=subscription }}{{Cite news |date=December 31, 2010 |title=Found in Translation - Exile as a Productive Experience in the Work of Iranian Artists |work=Nukta Art, vol. 5, no. 2}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=2011 |title=Public performances of identity negotiation in the Iranian diaspora: the New York Persian Day Parade |url=https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-1264316 |journal=Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East |publisher=Duke University Press |volume=31 |issue=2 |pages=388–410|doi=10.1215/1089201X-1264316 |s2cid=145683784 |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite news |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=June 5, 2012 |title=Persian Dispersion, A Discussion Of the Effect Of Iranians on Los Angeles-and Angelenos On Iran |work=Zocalo Public Square |url=https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/06/05/persian-dispersion/ideas/up-for-discussion/}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=2015 |title=Claiming Space Documenting Second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles |url=https://doi.org/10.3167/ame.2015.100203 |journal=Anthropology of the Middle East |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=16–45|doi=10.3167/ame.2015.100203 |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite journal |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=Winter 2019 |title=Paradoxes of Dual Nationality: Geopolitical Constraints on Multiple Citizenship in the Iranian Diaspora |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/745776 |journal=The Middle East Journal |publisher=Middle East Institute |volume=73 |issue=4 |pages=531–534|doi=10.3751/73.4.11 |s2cid=213776999 |url-access=subscription }}
- {{Cite news |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=January 9, 2020 |title=Malek: For Iran's diaspora, plane crash brings grief across oceans and borders |work=Ottawa Citizen |publisher=Postmedia Network Inc. |url=https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/malek-for-irans-diaspora-plane-crash-brings-grief-across-oceans-and-borders}}
- {{Cite book |last=Malek |first=Amy |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=akrUDwAAQBAJ |title=My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora |publisher=University of Texas Press |isbn=9781477320273 |editor-last=Whitney |editor-first=Katherine |location=Austin, TX |publication-date=March 16, 2020 |pages=102–111 |chapter=Negotiating Memories |date=16 March 2020 |editor-last2=Emery |editor-first2=Leila}}{{Cite news |last=Newcomb |first=Rachel |date=April 16, 2020 |title=Iranian Americans' stories of rejection and belonging |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/iranian-americans-stories-of-rejection-and-belonging/2020/04/16/9cc3ba04-6a4e-11ea-b313-df458622c2cc_story.html |issn=0190-8286}}
- {{Cite journal |last=Malek |first=Amy |date=September 12, 2020 |title=Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/136787792095734 |journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=266–289 |doi=10.1177/1367877920957348|s2cid=225005767 |url-access=subscription }}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://www.amymalek.com/ Official website]
- [https://global.okstate.edu/globalstudies/ipgs/index.html Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies] (IPGS) website
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Category:University of California, Los Angeles alumni
Category:College of Charleston faculty
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Category:American people of Iranian descent