My name is Sanan Moradi, and this site is about my academic research, teaching, and intellectual interests. I am a political & cultural geographer with a regional focus on the Middle East, Iran, and Kurdistan. My research interests incorporate a wide range of political and cultural geographic themes including territory, power/resistance, social media, visuality, affect; state violence, precarity; and qualitative methods. Specifically, my research examines the production of territorial imagination, embodied, affective, and mediated resistance to state violence. My most recent publications have addressed Protest and Embodied Production of Territory (published in Geopolitics, 2023), Social Media, Visual Images, and Affect (cultural geographies, 2024), Precarity, State Violence, and Underground Economy (Political Geography, 2022), and the Palestine Solidarity Encampment (Antipode, 2024), among others.
I obtained my doctoral degree from the University of Oregon and taught as an adjunct instructor at the Geography Department and Prison Education Program (Fall 2022 – Spring 2024). Before that, I did my second Master’s in geography at Miami University, Ohio, and my first Master’s in political geography at the University of Tehran, Iran. For my undergraduate, I studied physical geography at Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
When I’m not working, I like biking, listening to music, reading (novels), photographing, watching films, and volunteering—geographies by other means, one could say.
Contact
smoradi[at]uoregon[dot]edu
snn[dot]moradi[at]gmail[dot]com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sanan-moradi/