Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book...See more

Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Frontier Fictions: Shaping the Iranian Nation, 1804-1946 (1999), which has been translated to Persian and Turkish. Excerpts from this work informed an art exhibition in Baku, Azerbaijan (Yarat Centre, 2019). Kashani-Sabet subsequently published Conceiving Citizens: Women and the Politics of Motherhood in Iran (2011), which won the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies Book Award. Kashani-Sabet is also the author of a novel, Martyrdom Street (2010), and a co-edited volume, Gender in Judaism and Islam: Common Lives, Uncommon Heritage (2014). See less