Shirin S. Deylami

Assistant Professor

shirin deylami

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.
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