Amy Malek

American professor, sociocultural anthropologist, department chair

Amy Malek
Born	c. 1979/1980 United States
Alma mater	Emory University, New York University, University of California, Los Angeles
Occupation(s)	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.^[1] She serves as the endowed Chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.^[2] Her work focuses on the migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora.^[3] Malek is an Iranian-American.^[4]

Education and career

"...[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."

–Amy Malek, from My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020)^[5]

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.^[2] She holds a Ph.D. (2015) in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).^[2] While attending UCLA, she took an interest in studying the second generation of Iranian immigrants.^[6]^[7]^[8]

From 2016 to 2022, she was an assistant professor of international studies at the College of Charleston.^[1]^[4]^[9] 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.^[10]^[11] In Fall of 2022, she joined Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.^[2]

Publications

Malek, Amy (September 1, 2006). "Memoir as Iranian exile cultural production: A case study of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis series". Iranian Studies. 39 (3). Taylor & Francis, Ltd.: 353–380. doi:10.1080/00210860600808201. JSTOR 4311834. S2CID 161807564.^[12]
Malek, Amy (2011). "Public performances of identity negotiation in the Iranian diaspora: the New York Persian Day Parade". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East. 31 (2). Duke University Press: 388–410. doi:10.1215/1089201X-1264316. S2CID 145683784.
Malek, Amy (June 5, 2012). "Persian Dispersion, A Discussion Of the Effect Of Iranians on Los Angeles-and Angelenos On Iran". Zocalo Public Square.
Malek, Amy (2015). "Claiming Space Documenting Second-generation Iranian Americans in Los Angeles". Anthropology of the Middle East. 10 (2): 16–45. doi:10.3167/ame.2015.100203.
Malek, Amy (Winter 2019). "Paradoxes of Dual Nationality: Geopolitical Constraints on Multiple Citizenship in the Iranian Diaspora". The Middle East Journal. 73 (4). Middle East Institute: 531–534. doi:10.3751/73.4.11. S2CID 213776999.
Malek, Amy (January 9, 2020). "Malek: For Iran's diaspora, plane crash brings grief across oceans and borders". Ottawa Citizen. Postmedia Network Inc.
Malek, Amy (16 March 2020). "Negotiating Memories". In Whitney, Katherine; Emery, Leila (eds.). My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press (published March 16, 2020). pp. 102–111. ISBN 9781477320273.^[5]
Malek, Amy (September 12, 2020). "Clickbait orientalism and vintage Iranian snapshots". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 24 (2): 266–289. doi:10.1177/1367877920957348. S2CID 225005767.

References

^ ^a ^b "Global Cafe: Contests of Inclusion: A Comparative Ethnography of Iranians in the U.S. & Canada". University of Nebraska-Lincoln. February 17, 2020. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Dr. Amy Malek Joins the School of Global Studies as Assistant Professor". States News Service. August 24, 2022 – via Gale Academic OneFile.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Moghaddari, Sonja (2020). "Localizing Iranian diaspora politics: A comparative approach to transnational critique and incorporation". Confluences Méditerranée (in French). N°113 (2): 77–89. doi:10.3917/come.113.0077. ISSN 1148-2664. S2CID 226593150. {{cite journal}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
^ ^a ^b Johnston, Holly; Omar, Shahla (October 15, 2020). "Iran's jailed dual nationals: pawns in an IRGC power play". Rudaw.
^ ^a ^b Newcomb, Rachel (April 16, 2020). "Iranian Americans' stories of rejection and belonging". The Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286.
^ Amirani, Shoku (2012-09-29). "Tehrangeles: How Iranians made part of LA their own". BBC News. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ "Art Review: Snapshots from an emerging culture". The Los Angeles Times. 2010-07-12. p. 29. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ "Los Angeles, l'autre capitale de l'Iran". Le Monde.fr (in French). 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ Bajoghli, Narges (October 2, 2017). "'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". Al-Monitor. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ "Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Annual Review". Issu. 2020.
^ Parvini, Sarah (2020-11-24). "Iranian diaspora has eyes on new president". The Los Angeles Times. pp. A1, A7. Retrieved 2022-09-29.
^ "Found in Translation - Exile as a Productive Experience in the Work of Iranian Artists". Nukta Art, vol. 5, no. 2. December 31, 2010.