Eliz Sanasarian

Eliz Sanasarian is Professor in Department of Political Science and International Relations and Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Religious Minorities in Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2000, 2006), and The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, Appeasement, and Repression from 1900 to Khomeini (Praeger 1982, 1983) and its edited Persian Jonbesh-e Hoquq-e Zanan Dar Iran: Toqian, Ofool va Sarkoob az 1280 ta Enqelab-e 57, translated by Nasrin Khorasani which won the first prize as the Best Research Book on Women in Iran in 2007. Her publications on a variety of topics have appeared in book chapters and academic interdisciplinary journals such as the Journal of International Affairs, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Diaspora, and Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. She is also the co-recipient of a U.S. Agency for International Development grant for work on vulnerable children and youth in Kenya. She has received various awards including USC's President's Circle Faculty Award for outstanding merit in the areas of teaching, research, and service, University's Remarkable Women Award by Women's Student Assembly, and the University's highest honor "The Associates Award for Excellence in Teaching".
She has just completed a book manuscript on good governance from below which focuses on lessons learned from a lineage of struggles around the world.