Social Media University

Elham Gheytanchi

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Walnut Creek, CA 94595

Cell:310-***-****

Email: *********@*******.***

Education:

M.A. Sociology, UCLA 1998

B.A. Sociology (& Chemistry), UCLA 1995

Positions:

Associate Faculty, Sociology, Santa Monica College, 2002- present

Analyst, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, Mapping the Persian Blogsphere, 2008-2009.

Grant writer, Obtained a grant from Department of Water and Power on a water conservation project at Santa Monica College, 2008

Co-producer, Public Radio International/ KCRW 89.9 F.M., To The Point hosted by Warren Olney, 2001-2003. Analysis and report writing for nationally acclaimed radio program in NPR with over 7 million listeners.

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications:

“Iran’s Green Movement, Social Media and the Exposure of Human Rights Violations” in Information Politics, Protests, and Human Rights in the Digital Age edited by Mahmood Monshipouri, Cambridge University Press, 2016: 177-196.

“Gender Roles in the Social Media World of Iranian Women” in Social Media in Iran: Politics and Society after 2009 edited by David M. Farris and Babak Rahimi, State University of New York, Sunny Press, 2015: 41-57.

“Social Media, Dissent, and Iran’s Green Movement,” (coauthored with Mehdi Yahyanejad) in Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, eds. Liberation Technology: Social Media and the Struggle for Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 139–53. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/142*******/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M2C_SC_dp_1)

“Symbols, Signs, and Slogans of the Demonstrations in Iran in 2009” chapter in Media, Power and Politics in the Digital Age: The 200 Presidential election Uprising in Iran edited by Yahya Kamalipour, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc., pp. 251-265

“Political Opportunities and Strategic Choices: Comparing Feminist Campaigns in Morocco and Iran” Co-authored with Valentine Moghadam in Mobilization: An International Journal 15 (3): 267-288, September 2010.

Translated into Persian and published in Iranian Feminist School: http://www.iranianfeminschool.info/spip.php?article6574

“Iran’s Reformist and Activists: Internet Exploiters” coauthored with Babak Rahimi in Middle East Policy Journal, Volume XV, Spring 2008, Number 1, pp. 46-59

Reprinted in Arseh Sevom online Magazine: http://www.arsehsevom.net/zine/?p=44

"I will Turn off the Lights: The Allure of Marginality in Post-Revolutionary Iran," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East Journal 27.1, 2007: 175-225.

“Civil Society in Iran: Politics of Motherhood and Public Sphere” in International Sociology Journal, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2001: 557-577.

“Chronology of Events Regarding Women in Iran since the Revolution of 1979” in Social Research Journal, Volume 67, No. 2, Summer 2000.

“Post-revolutionary Iran: Islam, Gender and Politics” in Middle East Research Associates (MERA) 2, Printerette: Amsterdam, 1998.

“I Shall Salute the Sun Once Again: A critique on the documentary video on Forough Farokhzad” in Jusur: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 13, 1997.

“The United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women” in Suitcase: Journal of Transcultural Traffic, Vol. 1 & 2: 1995.

Selected Non-Peer reviewed Publications:

دونالد ترامپ نامزدی «نامتعارف» “Donald Trump: An Unusual Candidate”: Radio interview with Radio Farda (equivalent of Radio Free Europe funded by Congress in The United States of America) in Persian, November 7th 2016:

http://www.radiofarda.com/a/f8-trump-unconventional/28095441.html

“The Facebook Revolution is changing how ordinary people relate to political activism” co-authored with Babak Rahimi, San Francisco Chronicle, February 15, 2011.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/opinionshop/detail?entry_id=83080

“Wahlverwandtschaften zwischen der Frauenrechtsbewegung und der Grunen Bewegung” (German article) in Inamo Magazine (63): Informationsprojekt Neher und Mittlerer Osten, Jargang 16, Herbst 2010, pp. 22-25. [abstract available here: http://www.inamo.de/index.php/aktuelles-heft.html ]

“US Woman Writes From inside Iran’s Most Notorious Prison”, Ms Magazine Blog, October 18, 2010

http://msmagazine.com/blog/blog/2010/10/18/u-s-woman-writes-from-inside-irans-most-notorious-prison/

“Iran’s Latest Crackdown on Women’s Rights Activists” in CNN ac360 blog, February 19, 2010

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/02/19/irans-latest-crackdown-on-womens-rights/

“Iran Continues Crackdown on Women’s Rights Advocates” in MS Magazine, February 18, 2010

http://msmagazine.com/winter2010/iran.asp

“A Lack of Academic Freedom in Iran” in American Sociological Association (ASA) Forum, January 2010, Issue 1, volume 38.

http://www.asanet.org/footnotes/jan10/asa_forum_0110.html

“Iran Analysis: Leadership in Green Movement” in Enduring America, January 28, 2010.

http://enduringamerica.com/2010/01/28/iran-analysis-leadership-in-the-green-movement/

Words Without Borders: The online magazine for International Literature (October 1st, 2009)

“A Revolutionary Tradition: Slogans in Iranian Street politics”

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=GheytanchiShoar

CNNac360 Blog (September 23, 2009)

“Shoar in Iran: The Sounds from the street”

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/23/shoar-in-iran-the-sounds-from-the-street/

The Ripon Forum (Summer 2009)

“The New Revolutionary: The Brave women who are leading the Protests in Iran”

http://www.riponsociety.org/forum309b.htm

CNN-ac360 (June 25, 2009)

“Ordinary Women are Extraordinary in Iran”

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/25/ordinary-women-are-extraordinary-in-iran/

Sf Chronicle (June 29, 09)

“Women Lead the Protest in Iran”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/28/ED8618EMUC.DTL

Foreign Policy (July 20, 2009)

“The Revolution will not be Televised (Accurately)” (co-authored with Babak Rahimi)

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/07/20/the_revolution_will_not_be_televised

SF chronicle (April 6, 2009)

“Iran’s TV adds entertainment to propaganda”

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/05/INJKVSDHN.DTL

“Iran’s War on Women’s Rights” Op-ed in New York Post, February 2nd 2009.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/01312009/postopinion/opedcolumnists/irans_war_on_womens_rights_152830.htm

“The Politics of Facebook in Iran” Op-ed co-authored with Babak Rahimi in OpenDemocracy, June 1, 2009

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/email/the-politics-of-facebook-in-iran

“Tehran’s Web of Silence” Op-ed co-authored with Babak Rahimi in Boston Globe, August 24, 2008.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/08/24/tehrans_web_of_silence/

“Iran’s TV adds entertainment to Propaganda” Op-ed article published in San Francisco Chronicle, Sunday Insight section, April 6th 2008

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/06/INJKVSDHN.DTL&hw=tv&sn=002&sc=923

Book Review, Mahmoud Dowlatabadi’s Missing Soluch, published in Words Without Borders, April 29, 08http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=DowlatabadiSoluchReview

Right Time, Right Strategy: Interview with Soheila Vahdati (January 6, 2008):http://www.iranian.com/main/2008/right-time-right-strategy

Reprinted in HuffingtonPost.com (January 8, 2008):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elham-gheytanchi/iranian-womens-rights-i_b_80326.html

“Lashing out on Iranian Women’s Rights Activists” in Huffingtonpost.com (December 5, 2007):http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elham-gheytanchi/lashing-out-on-iranian-wo_b_75534.html

“Diplomacy towards Iran,” an Op-ed article in Gulf Policy Forum (GPF), MEC International Ltd. UK: London, August 2007: 5-6.

“Negahi be majmoue dastan ghesehaye mokarar neveshtey-e Bijan Bijari” (Book review of Bijan Bijari’s book- ‘Repetitious Stories’” in Karnameh: Persian Monthly magazine on cultural, social and literary issues, Number 41, 2003: pp.101-102.

Book Reviews:

The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran, by Arzoo Osanloo in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS), Volume 7, Number 1,Winter 2011: pp. 123-126

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran, Nima Naghibi, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2007, in Iranian Studies Journal: Volume 43, number 4, September 2010: pp. 572-575.

Between Warrior Brother and Veiled Sister: Islamic Fundamentalism and the Politics of Patriarchy in Iran, by Minoo Moallem in Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies (JMEWS) Volume 5, Number 1,Winter 2009: pp.113-116.

Presentations:

Panel chair, 2012 IAAB International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora, “Holding a Mirror to Ourselves: Critiques and Dialogues” on October 13, 2012 at UCLA.

Panelist in the panel “New Media and New Politics in the Middle East and North Africa”: presented a paper titled “Feminist Cyberactivism in the Middle East and North Africa: From New Media to New Politics?", at International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Meeting in San Diego, April 2nd 2012.

Invited speaker, Panel on “The political and Social Impact of Facebook in Iran”, presented a paper titled “Facebook, Gender and social change in the Iranian Political Life”, Organized by Center for Global Communication Studies, Annenberg Public Policy Center, UPenn, February 24th, 2012

Invited Speaker, Panel on “Priorities and Challenges of Women’s Movements in the Middle East- similarities and differences” organized by One Million Signature Campaign at University of California, Irvine. March 12, 2011.

Panel Chair, “Transformations in Post-revolutionary Iran”, Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA), November 18, 2010, San Diego, CA.

Panelist in the panel “Activism in the Electronic Age: The Impact of technology on political protest” in Dartmouth College, February 9th 2010.

http://www.ists.dartmouth.edu/events/dcfactivismpanel.html

http://thedartmouth.com/2010/02/10/news/activism

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zIdYtbzMuk&feature=player_embedded

“Iranian Literature in Diaspora: An Intimate view” paper presented in University of California at San Diego, Literature Department Guest series, February 18th 2009.

“blogging in Iran” paper presented in University of California, Irvine, “Public Sphere and the Blogsphere” seminar, October 24, 2008.

“Revival, Restoration and Visibility: Persian blogsphere and Persian language,” paper presented in Global Conversations: A Festival of Marginalized Languages at University of California, Irvine by the International Center for Writing and Translation, October 24-26, 2007.

Panel chair “The Domestic Scene: Religion, Society and Power” in Tel Aviv University conference titled “Iran: The Emerging Challenge in Multiple Perspectives” convened in Los Angeles, California, March 25, 2007.

“Teaching with an Accent” Paper presented in Pacific Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California, April 20-23, 2006.

“Public Space and Women in Iran” Paper presented in European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) 3rd annual meeting, Budapest, Hungry, September 8-10, 2005.

“I Turn off the Lights: The Private Sphere in Contemporary Iranian Women's Novels” Paper presented in Private Lives and Public Spaces, Oxford, UK, July 7-10, 2005.

“Iranian-American community in Los Angeles: Diaspora or Transnationalism?” Paper presented at IAAB conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 17-18, 2004.

“Iranian Women: Legal Challenges” Paper presented at Loyola Law School, March 8, 2004.

“International Women’s Advocacy Networks-The Peace Women Project by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and Women Living under Islamic Laws,” paper presented at Irmgard Coninx Stiftung (Social Research Foundation), Berlin Roundtables, Germany, January 2-10, 2004.

“Women’s Voices from the Middle East,” paper presented in American Association of University Women (AAUW) State Convention, May 2002

“Women and Multiculturalism,” paper presented in 12th International conference of Iranian Women’s Studies Conference in Sweden, June 2001

“Women in public sphere in Iran,” paper presented in Kulturwissenschftliches Institute in Germany, October 14, 2000

“Civil Society in Iran: Gender Politics and Public Sphere,” paper presented in 24th annual meeting of Social Science History Association, Texas, FortWorth: November 13, 1999

“Jews in Iranian Communist Party” Session organizer in fourth annual conference of Center for Iranian Jewish Oral History, Los Angeles: February 7, 1999

“Iranian migrant women in United States and the change in gender roles” Session Organizer in ninth annual conference of The Iranian Women’s Foundation in Washington D.C.: June 27, 1998

“Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil Society”: Paper presented in Thinking Gender Conference, UCLA: February 1998

“Islamic Feminism: A Viable Solution?” Paper presented in Designing Women’s Resistances, UC Berkeley, March 8-10, 1998

“Muslim Women’s Activists”: Paper presented in Iranian Women’s Association, Los Angeles: August 9-10, 1997

“The Feminine Voice in Persian Poetry”: A Radio Production for Feminist Magazine, KPFK national Radio: October 1997

“Women’s Publishing work in Islamic Republic of Iran”: A Radio documentary produced and broadcasted on KPFK Radio: April 1995

“Women and Migration: The Case of Iranian Jewish and Muslim women”: Paper presented in Alpha Kappa Delta Sociology Meeting, UCLA: December 1995

Professional Membership:

Association of Internet Researchers (AOIR)

Middle East Studies Association (MESA)

American Sociological Association (ASA)

Board of Directors, Coalition of Women from Asia and Middle East (CWAME)

Community Advisory board of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County (NHM)

Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation (Harvard University)

The Gulf 2000 Project (Columbia University)

UCLA Alumni Association

Languages and computer skills: Fluent in Persian, proficient in German, Arabic and Hebrew. Able to work with ecollege platform, super anova, excel, SPSS, SAS, final cut, photoshop, Access, MySQL.

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