Sima Shakhsari

Sima Shakhsari is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota. Shakhsari was previously an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum (2015-16), and the teaching and research Postdoctoral Fellow in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Houston (2010-12). They earned their PhD in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University and have published in Feminist Review, Sexualities, The International Journal of Middle East Studies, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Transgender Studies II, and Queer Necropolitics. Their book manuscript titled Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan (Duke, Fall 2019) provides an analysis of Weblogistan as a site of cybergovernmentality, where simultaneously national and neoliberal gendered subjectivities are produced through online and offline heteronormative disciplining and normalizing techniques.