Contact Information
702 S.Wright Street
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
I am a PhD candidate in Sociology. While in Iran pursuing a master's degree in Gender Studies, I worked as the senior assistant with the Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran project ( http://www.qajarwomen.org/en/ ), a digital archive hosted at Harvard University. Before arriving in the US, I did some graduate studies in Turkey at Middle East Technical University (METU) and Ankara University. There, my research was centered around transnational feminist solidarities. In Turkey, I also collaborated with the United Nations (UN) on their projects related to LGBTQI refugees in Turkey. I earned a Master’s in Sociology from Maxwell School and advanced certification in Gender Studies from Syracuse University. While there, I had the opportunity to work with the Feminist Freedom Warriors (FFW) project ( http://feministfreedomwarriors.org/ ), which is a digital project hosted at Syracuse University, Department of Women and Gender Studies.
Research Interests
My research examines the intersection of feminist movements, digital technologies, and social movements in Global South.
Awards and Honors
AAUW International Doctorial Fellowship, The American Association of University Women
Boost Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement, Department of Sociology, UIUC, 2025
The Catherine C. and Bruce A. Bastian Scholarship, 2025
Awarded for doing transnational sociology, Department of Sociology, UIUC
Florian Znaniecki Graduate Student Publication Prize, 2025
Awarded for best sole-authored published paper by a graduate student,
Department of Sociology, UIUC
George L. Beslow Graduate Student Paper Award, 2025
Awarded for best sole-authored sociology paper by a graduate student,
Department of Sociology, UIUCThe Strive Awards series’ Pat Morey Legacy Award, Women’s Resource Center at the University of Illinois, 2025
Pat Morey Legacy award "is given annually to one student whose work in gender equity will have a lasting impact on campus."
The Evelyne Accad and Paul Vieille International Award, the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity, UIUC, 2025
Rita and Arnold Goodman Fellow, the Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity, UIUC, 2024-2025
Awardee of the Clark McPhail Collaborative Research Award, Department of Sociology, UIUC, 2024-2025
Summer Writing Fellowship, Department of Sociology, UIUC, 2024
Courses Taught
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Introduction to Sociology (leading sections)- Spring 2022-23
Ranked as outstanding by the students
Introduction to Sociology (leading sections)- Fall 2022-23
Ranked as excellent by the students
Syracuse University- Maxwell School
Sociological Theories- Spring 2020-21
Ranked as excellent by the students
External Links
Highlighted Publications
Moqadam, Mahbubeh. “Transnational Vernacular Feminist Activism: Mattering and Materializing Socioemotional Solidarity,” Sings: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
Moqadam, Mahbubeh. “Fractal Scaling of Feminist Politics and the Emergence of Woman Life Freedom Movement in Iran,” Social Forces
https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/soaf050
Moqadam, Mahbubeh. “I’m the common pain; Dance with me”: Fractality, Affect, and Embodiment in Circulation of Resistance,” Critical Sociology
https://doi.org/10.1177/08969205251359979
Moqadam, Mahbubeh. “A Decolonial Inquiry into Women’s Agency in Urban Landscape in 19th Century Iran”. Invited contribution to the special issue on Women in Public Spaces, Journal of Gender & Development, https://doi.org/10.1080/13552074.2024.2357504
Moqadam, Mahbubeh. “Ali Shariati and Crafting a Collective Islamic Revolutionary Identity for Women: A Socio-Historical Perspective” Journal of Asian & African Studies, https://doi.org/10.1177/00219096231207891.
Courtney Carr, Deniz Berfin Aydin, Lydia Biggs, Renee Brown, Natalie Gallagher, Mahbubeh Moqadam, and Mahvish Nazar “Pandemic within a Pandemic (within a Pandemic): Unraveling a Pedagogy of Possibilities.” The RAACES Review: Racialized Academics and Advocates Centering Equity and Solidarity, Volume 2, Issue 1, pages 34-44. https://ojs.uwindsor.ca/index.php/raaces/issue/view/696