kamrana@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Liberal Arts

Home Department: Middle Eastern Studies

Additional department affiliations: History

Education: Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Research interests:Islamic and Iranian History-particular focus on Shi'i symbols and rituals in modern Iran; Shi'ism; Islamic rituals; social and cultural history; religious and political discourses; historiography; nationalism; gender studies

Courses taught:
MES 381 Islamic Revolution of Iran, 1978-1990

Recent Publications:The Women of Karbala: The Gender Dynamics of Ritual Performances and Symbolic Discourses of Modern Shi'i Islam. (Austin: University of Texas Press, Nov. 2005); "Religious Rituals, Social Identities, and Political Relationships Under Qajar Rule: 1850s-1930s." Religion and Society in Qajar Iran. ed. Robert Gleave. (London: Routledge Curzon/BIPS Persian Studies Series, January 2005)