is Lecturer at the University of Vienna. Her areas of expertise are Islam and Feminism, Islamophobia, and Religious Minorities in/from the Middle East. In 2015, she won the Austrian State Prize for Adult Education, together for a collaborative research project on “Migrants as Professionals in Adult Education”. From July 2014 to February 2015 she was a Post-doc Fellow at the Kate Hamburger Kolleg KHK / GCR21 in Duisburg, Germany. Her book, Shopping for Freedom—Resistance and Conformity in the Consumption Behaviour of the Iranian middle-class, was published by transcript in 2012 (in German) and her most recent publication, Diaspora as Agents of Cooperation – Global and Local Perspectives, is currently in print with Palgrave MacMillan.
email: ariane.sadjed@gmail.com