Shahla Haeri
WSRP Research Associate 2005–06
Colorado Scholar
Home institution
Boston University
Research project
Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?
Focuses on women political leaders (including 47 presidential candidates) to assess the changing relationship between the state, religion, and women in Iran. This project argues that Iran's experimentation with Islamization in the past 25 years encouraged the development of a dynamic, if at times battered, democracy movement, of which the incipient women's movement forms a significant part.
WSRP lecture
Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?
Course
HDS 3908: Women Political Leaders and Religious Law in the Muslim World: Seminar (Fall 2005)