Claudia Yaghoobi

Claudia Yaghoobi is the Roshan Distinguished Professor of Persian Studies and director of the Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. An expert in Iranian cultural studies, gender, and sexuality, her research focuses on sexual, ethnic, and religious minority groups. She is the author of several influential works, including Transnational Culture in the Iranian Armenian Diaspora (2023), Temporary Marriage in Iran: Gender and Body Politics in Modern Persian Literature and Film (2020), and Subjectivity in ‘Attar, Persian Sufism, and European Mysticism (2017). Yaghoobi also edited The #MeToo Movement in Iran: Reporting Sexual Violence and Harassment (2023).

Currently, Yaghoobi is completing her fourth monograph, Lives in Translation: Armenian Women’s Voices in Iran and the US, which explores the intersectional experiences of Iranian Armenian women navigating systemic discrimination across Iran and the U.S. Her work combines personal autoethnography, oral histories, and archival research to highlight how religion, ethnicity, gender, and class shape identity. Yaghoobi’s scholarship offers a vital contribution to global discourses on diaspora, human rights, and the deconstruction of societal norms, reflecting her identity as an Iranian Armenian American scholar.

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