Naima Mohammadi is a teaching assistant professor at the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Center at Pittsburgh University. She teaches some courses in the field of Gender and Sexuality in the Middle East. These courses address the socio-religious elements of gender, marriage, and family relationships of Muslim women in a multicultural context globally, and in relation to Islamic traditions in the Middle East region and North Africa.
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Center (GSWS): “Indigenous Feminism”; “Introduction to Gender and Women Studies”,
Department of Sociology: “Gender and Law in the Middle East”, “ Working Women” “Sociology of Gender”;
Department of Law: “Marriage and Family in Islam”;
Department of History: “Islam and Conflict in Global Context”.
Her field of study is the experiences of minoritized and marginalized women, specifically Muslim women’s issues in non-Muslim contexts. Her research interest is associated with putting Colored and Covered Muslim Feminism in dialogue with ‘Global feminism’. Her book “The Sociology of Polygamous Families” investigates one of the most exceptional family lifestyles of Muslim women in the Baluchistan region and highlights the circumstances of religious and ethnic minority women in Iran. The main purpose is to provide students with a global perspective of feminist studies in which the geopolitics of feminism and local issues are highlighted. Her research uses intersectional feminism to analyze different ways Muslim women experience discrimination.
