Veiled Employment: Islamism and the Political Economy of Women’s Employment in Iran

Contributors

xvii Contributors Roksana Bahramitash is a graduate of the McGill University Sociology Department and has received two postdoctoral awards from the Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (SSHRC). She is the winner of the Eileen D. Ross award (2003–4) for her work on female poverty, globalization, Islamization, and women ’s employment. In 2006 she won a three-year research grant from the SSHRC and in 2008 she was given a grant by the Council for the Arts to write her memoir. Dr. Bahramitash has taught many courses at McGill University and Concordia University and has worked with international development agencies including the Canadian Development Agency (CIDA), the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), and the World Bank–funded project through the Center for Teaching and Research on Arab Women (CAWTAR). Bahramitash is the author of several articles and book chapters. Her first book is Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia (2005, reprinted 2008). This book has been translated into Persian by Mr. Hossien Nouri and published by Samt in Tehran. A forthcoming book is entitled Gendering in Contemporary Iran: Pushing the Boundaries (coedited with Eric Hooglund). Bahramitash is research director at the Chair of Islam, Pluralism, and Globalization at the University of Montreal. Hadi Salehi Esfahani is professor of economics and director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In addition, he currently xviii • Contributors serves as the editor in chief of the Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance. He has also served as president of the Middle East Economic Association during 2007–9 and has worked for the World Bank as a visiting staff economist and a consultant. He received his BSc in engineering from Tehran University and a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. His theoretical and empirical research is in the field of the political economy of development , focusing in particular on the Middle East and North Africa region. Dr. Esfahani has published numerous articles on the role of politics and governance in fiscal, trade, and regulatory policy formation . His articles have appeared in The Economic Journal, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Development Economics, International Economic Review, Oxford Economic Review, World Development, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Iranian Studies, among others. Shahla K azemipour is associate professor of demography and deputy director of the Population Studies and Research Centre in Asia and the Pacific. She has done extensive research on development and population. She has worked with a number of professional associations , for example as supervisor of the Demographical Research Section at the Institute of Social Studies and Research, and as head of the advisory board for student affairs at the faculty of social sciences at Tehran University. Dr. Kazemipour is the author of many books and articles in refereed international journals in both English and Persian, including Primary Methods in Population Analysis (1991), A Sociological Study of the City of Tehran (2001), “Myth and Realities of the Impact of Islam on Women: Women’s Changing Marital Status in Iran” (with Roksana Bahramitash, 2006), and “Economy, Informal Economy” in Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic (with Roksana Bahramitash, 2008). Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam is a professor of economics at Hofstra University. She received her D.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, and her MA and BA from Columbia University Contributors • xix (Barnard College). She has published extensively on agricultural economy , economic history, and women and development in Iran. She is the author of From Land Reform to The Revolution: The Political Economy of Agricultural Development in Iran (1960–1979). Her publications on gender and development in Iran include: “Iran’s New Islamic Home Economics: An Exploratory Attempt to Conceptualize Women’s Work in the Islamic Republic” (2001); “Women and the Labor in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” in Women in Iran from 1800 to the Islamic Republic (2004); and “Undercounting Women’s Work in Iran” (2008). Dr. Moghadam served as executive secretary and president of the Middle East Economic Association. She has also served as board member of a number of scholarly organizations, as well as on editorial boards of scholarly journals. She has worked as a consultant for UNDP and the World Bank. Zahra K arimi received her PhD in economics from an Iranian state university and is currently an academic staff member...