Manata Hashemi is a sociologist, ethnographer, and the Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma. Her work examines how disenfranchised groups manage and find meaning under conditions of hardship, particularly in urban environments marked by economic insecurity. She focuses on the experiences of the marginalized, Middle Eastern poor.
Dr. Hashemi’s work can be found in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Qualitative Sociology, and the International Journal of Middle East Studies, among others. She is the author "Coming of Age in Iran: Poverty and the Struggle for Dignity" (New York University Press, 2020), as well as co-editor of "Children in Crisis: Ethnographic Studies in International Contexts" (Routledge, 2013).
Dr. Hashemi holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA in Middle East Studies from Harvard University, and a BA in Near Eastern Studies from Cornell University. Prior to joining the University of Oklahoma, Dr. Hashemi served as a research director at Qatar Foundation and a post-doctoral fellow at Georgetown University in Qatar.
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