Shirin S. Deylami
Assistant Professor
Contact Information
Phone: (360) 650-2913
Office: AH 409
Email: Shirin.Deylami@wwu.edu
Website: http://myweb.facstaff.wwu.edu/deylams
Education
- Ph.D. Political Science, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- M.A., Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- B.A., Politics and Women's Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Research Interests
- Islamic Thought
- Comparative Political Thought
- Contemporary Western Political Thought
- Comparative Religious Thought
- Feminist and queer theory
- Democratic Theory
- Theories of Globalization
Selected Publications
Articles
- "Saving the Enemy: Female Suicide Bombers and the Making of American Empire." Forthcoming in International Feminist Journal of Politics.
- "In the Face of the Machine: Westoxification, Cultural Collision, and the Making of Perso-Islamic Ideology." Polity, April 2011.
- "An Occidental Monster?: Western Perversion, Westoxified Foreign Subjects, and the Making of Islamic National Identity," Critical Sense, Fall 2005.