Sanan Moradi
Pro Tem. Instructor
Department of Geography
1251 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1251
email: smoradi@uoregon.edu
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Critical Geopolitics, Political & Cultural Geographies
Territory, Power/Resistance, Social Media
Regional Inequality & Cross-Border Economies
The Middle East, Iran, Kurdistan
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geography, University of Oregon, OR, 2022
M.A., Geography, Miami University, OH, 2014
M.A., Political Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran, 2011
B.A., Physical Geography, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran, 2008
PUBLICATIONS
Published
2024 – Moradi, S. Intervention — Fieldnotes from the Palestine Solidarity Encampment: Affect, Resisting Apathy, and What (Else) Can Be Learned from The Matrix. Antipode. August 2024, https://antipodeonline.org/2024/08/05/fieldnotes-from-the-palestine-solidarity-encampment/
2024 – Moradi, S. Territorial imagination: Social media, visual images, and affect in Iranian Kurdistan. Cultural Geographies, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740241264306
2023 – Moradi, S. Producing Territory, Resisting the State: Embodiment, Discourses, and Symbolism in Street Demonstrations in Iranian Kurdistan. Geopolitics. doi:10.1080/14650045.2022.2160711
2022 – Moradi, S., Morse, A., Murphy, A.B., Pakru, D., Shehabad H. Geographies of Precarity and Violence in the Kurdish Kolberi Underground Economy, Political Geography. 95, 102562.
2022 – Moradi, S. Academic Authoritarianism: Understanding Iran’s Cultural Revolution. In: N. Koch (Ed.). Spatializing Authoritarianism. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
2020 – Moradi, S. Languages of Iran: Overview and Critical Assessment. In: S. D. Brunn, & R. Kehrein (Eds.). Handbook of the Changing World Language Map. Cham: Springer. pp. 1171-1202.
2018 – Dahlman, C., & Moradi, S. Partition and National Fragmentation of Kurdistan. in Herb, G., & Kaplan, D.H. (Eds.). Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 223-237.
2014 – Afzali, R., & Moradi, S. The State in Modern and Postmodern Political Discourses: A Comparative Study. Politics Quarterly, Department of Law and Political Science, University of Tehran, 43 (4), 207-225.
2008 – Pishgahifard, Z., Moradi, S. “An Investigation in Economic Participation Trend of the Middle East and North Africa’s Women (1998-2012)”, Journal of Woman & Family Studies, 1 (1), 49-84.
Work in Progress
Moradi, S. Women, Life, Freedom: Kurdish Women Unsettling Iran’s Patriarchal Political Geography.
Other Publications
2019 – Moradi, S. “Who are the Kurds and why should Americans care?” Op-Ed. The Tennessean. Oct. 31.
2017 – Moradi, S. “Independent Kurdistan thwarts neighbor’s expansionist agendas” Op-Ed. Kurdistan 24. September 25.
PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
2022 – Moradi, S. Geographies of Precarity and Violence in the Kurdish Kolberi Underground Economy. AAG Annual Meeting, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, Virtual. [presenter].
2022 – Moradi, S. Panel: Indigenous Territory & Southern Knowledges. AAG Annual Meeting, Feb. 25-Mar. 1, Virtual. [co-organizer & presenter].
2021 – Moradi, S. Resistance Territory: Indigenous Discourses and Symbolism in Street Demonstrations in Iranian Kurdistan. APCG Annual Meeting, October 14-16, San Diego, CA / Virtual. [presenter].
2019 – Moradi, S. Geographies of Resistance and Social Movements: Past Approaches, Future Directions. AAG Annual Meeting, April 3-7, Washington D.C. [presenter & panel co-organizer].
2019 – Moradi, S. Geographies of Resistance and Social Movements: Past Approaches, Future Directions. AAG Annual Meeting, April 3-7, Washington D.C. [presenter & panel co-organizer].
2018 – Moradi, S. Of Hashtags and Streets: Kurdish Movement and the Making of Territory in the ISIS Era. APCG Annual Meeting, October 24-27, Reno, NV. [presenter].
2016 – Moradi, S. The Construction of ‘Rojhelat’ as a Region. At: Changing Geopolitics of Kurdistan. AAG Annual Meeting, March 29-April 2, SF, CA. [presenter & panel co-organizer].
2015 – Moradi, S. Governmentality in Post-revolutionary Iran: Making Muslim Iranian Subjects. AAG Annual Meeting, April 21-25, Chicago, IL. [presenter].
2015 – Moradi, S. Life and Death in Kurdistan. AAG Annual Meeting, April 21-25, Chicago, IL. [panel co-organizer].
2014 – Moradi, S. Core-Periphery in Iran: Economic Development and Interprovincial Migration. AAG Annual Meeting, April 8-12, Tampa, FL. [presenter].
2014 – Moradi, S. Kurdish Geopolitics. AAG Annual Meeting, April 8-12, Tampa, FL. [panel co-organizer].
2013 – Dahlman, C.T., & Moradi, S. From Serbexoy to Fedralizm: Decentralization and the New Kurdish Geopolitics. At: Kurdish Geographies of Space, Place and Power. AAG Annual Meeting, April 9-13, Los Angeles, CA. [co-presenter].
GRANTS, HONORS AND AWARDS
2022 – Political Geography Specialty Group, Conference Travel Award, American Association of Geographers (AAG). February 25 – March 1, Virtual.
2021 – APCG President’s Award for Outstanding PhD Paper. APCG Annual Meeting. October 14-16, San Diego, CA / Virtual.
2019 – Rippey Award. Geography Department, University of Oregon.
2019 – A. B. Murphy Dissertation Enhancement Award, Political Geography Specialty Group, American Association of Geographers (AAG), April. Washington D.C.
2019 – The Center for Asian and Pacific Studies (CAPS) Profession Grant, University of Oregon.
2018 – The Sandra F. Pritchard Mather Graduate Fellowship Fund in Geography, University of Oregon.
2018 – Rutherford Initiative Award, Middle East and North Africa Studies, University of Oregon.
2008 – Ranked 1 among 7,549 participants in the nationwide (Iranian) universities’ master’s entrance exam in Political Geography, in February.
2008 – Ranked 4 among 7,549 participants in the nationwide (Iranian) universities’ master’s entrance exam in Military Geography, in February.
TEACHING
University of Oregon, Geography Department
Instructor
Geog. 410/510: Power, Culture & Place
Geog. 343: Society, Culture & Place
Geog. 342: Geographies of Globalization & Development
Geog. 209: Geography of the Middle East & North Africa
Geog. 201: World Regional Geography
Geog. 142: Introduction to Human Geography
Graduate Teaching Fellow (GE)
Geog. 441: Political Geography
Geog. 343: Society, Culture & Place
Geog. 342: Geographies of Globalization & Development
Geog. 341: Population & Environment
Geog. 202: Geography of Europe
Geog. 202: World Regional Geography
Geog. 142: Introduction to Human Geography
Miami University, Geography Department
Teaching Assistant (TA)
Geo. 378: Political Geography
Geo. 101: Introduction to Human Geography
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
English (Fluent)
Persian (Fluent)
Kurdish (Native)
French (Upper-Intermediate)
MEMBERSHIP & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
American Association of Geographers
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers
Hesara Organization
Vejin Cultural & Artistic Association
Oxin Higher Education Consultation Institute (Jul. 2009 – Mar. 2010)
SERVICE
International Students Orientation, University of Oregon (Fall 2019 & Fall 2020)
Chair of the International GE Caucus, GTFF 3544 (Fall 2018 – Summer 2019)
Volunteer at Weekend Burrito Brigade, Eugene, OR (Winter 2019)
International Students Recruitment and Orientation, Miami University, OH (2013-14)
References
Alexander B. Murphy
Professor of Geography / Rippey Chair in Liberal Arts & Sciences
University of Oregon
173 Condon Hall, Eugene, OR 97403
Email: abmurphy@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4571
Shaul Cohen
Associate Professor / Co-Director, Peace Studies Program
Carnegie Council Global Ethics Fellow
University of Oregon
107G Condon Hall, Eugene, OR 97403
Email: scohen@uoregon.edu
Phone: 541-346-4500
Carl T. Dahlman
Director, Walker Institute for International and Area Studies and Professor of Geography
University of South Carolina
Callcott 305, Columbia, SC 29208
Email: carl.dahlman@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-4558