Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
{{short description|American-Iranian historian}}
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| education = B.A., 1989, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Yale University
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Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is an American-Iranian historian. Currently, she serves as Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on boundary disputes, borderland histories, gender, and identity politics in the Middle East.
Early life and education
Born and raised in Tehran, Iran, Kashani-Sabet attended the Community School in Tehran.{{cite web |author1=Jahandad Memarian |title=Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet: On the History of Iranian Nationhood |url=https://medium.com/@jahandad.memarian/firoozeh-kashani-sabet-on-the-history-of-iranian-nationhood-77a7a2fd44cd |website=medium.com |accessdate=November 11, 2019 |date=June 11, 2018}} During the Iran-Iraq War, Kashani-Sabet moved to Paris, France and lived there for approximately a year before immigrating to the United States.{{cite web |last1=Johnson |first1=Greg |title=Q&A with Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet |url=https://penntoday.upenn.edu/2013-10-17/interviews/qa-firoozeh-kashani-sabet |website=penntoday.upenn.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2019 |date=October 17, 2013}}
Career
She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on a Morehead scholarship and graduated in 1989. Subsequently, she attended graduate school in history at Yale University. After earning her doctorate at Yale, Kashani-Sabet joined the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1999. Shortly thereafter, she published "Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946," which analyzed the significance of land and border disputes as it related to identity and nation formation.{{cite journal |last1=Werner |first1=Christoph |title=Reviewed Work: Frontier Fictions. Shaping the Iranian Nation 1804-1946 by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet |journal=Die Welt des Islams|series=New Series|date=2006 |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=102–105 |jstor=20140715 }} In 2006, she was appointed director of The Middle East Center at Penn.{{cite web |title=Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Appointed the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History |url=https://www.sas.upenn.edu/news/firoozeh-kashani-sabet-appointed-robert-i-williams-term-professor-history |website=sas.upenn.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2019 |date=March 6, 2012}} Kashani-Sabet published a novel called "Martyrdom Street," which focused on life in Iran and America during the Revolution and after the Iran-Iraq War.{{cite web |last1=Barnes |first1=Andy |title=Belletrista Reviews-Martyrdom Street |url=http://www.belletrista.com/2010/issue5/reviews_17.php|accessdate=November 11, 2019 |date=May 1, 2010}} The next year, she published "Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran" by Oxford University Press.{{cite journal |last1=Rostam-Kolay |first1=Jasamin |title=Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet (review) |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |date=May 2014 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=310–312 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/542486/pdf |accessdate=November 11, 2019 |publisher=University of Texas Press}} The book, which won the 2012 Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award, focused on the history of reproductive health and the politics of motherhood in Iran, and how these themes have influenced politics.{{cite journal |author1=Rostam-Kolayi, Jasamin |title=Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran |journal=Journal of the History of Sexuality |date=May 2014 |volume=23 |issue=2 |pages=310-312 |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1521921891 |id={{ProQuest|1521921891}} |quote=Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet's Conceiving Citizens, a recipient of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award for 2012, is a welcome contribution to Middle East gender and sexuality studies and provides rich potential for comparative studies in other fields.}} The next year, Kashani-Sabet was named the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of History in the School of Arts and Sciences.
In 2014, Kashani-Sabet and Beth S. Wenger co-edited "Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage",{{cite journal |last1=May |first1=Chelsie |title=Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (review) |journal=Religious Studies Review |date=September 13, 2017 |volume=43 |issue=3 |pages=265–266 |doi=10.1111/rsr.13076 }} and, the following year, in 2015, she received a fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.{{cite tweet|user=PennHistory|number=554319258843643906|date=January 11, 2015|title=Congrats to Prof Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, who won 2015-16 fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.}} The next year, she was appointed Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History.{{cite web |title=Three Endowed Chairs in Penn's History Department |url=https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/three-endowed-chairs-in-penns-history-department-1 |website=almanac.upenn.edu |accessdate=November 11, 2019 |date=November 15, 2016}}
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