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Shahrzad Mojab

Canada, Toronto

Shahrzad Mojab is a professor of Women and Gender Studies and Education at the University of Toronto. She is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women’s work, learning, and education. Her research focuses on the theorization of Marxism and feminism; intersectionality; capitalist imperialist patriarchy; and the revolts of women, students, and nationalities in the Middle East and North Africa. She has published extensively on these topics; her recent books include Marxism and Migration (co-edited with Genevie Ritchie and Sara Carpenter, 2022); Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study (co-authored with Amir Hassanpour, 2021); and Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge (co-authored with Sara Carpenter, 2017). In 2023, she created and curated The Archive of Defiance (http://archiveofdefiance.com), in which selected visual materials representing the movement of Woman Life Freedom/Jin Jiyan Azadi in Iran.

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Toronto
Canada
shahrzad.mojab@utoronto.ca
wgsi.utoronto.ca