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Norma Claire Moruzzi

Associate Professor, Political Science, Gender & Women's Studies, and History

Director of the International Studies Program

Ph.D. The Johns Hopkins University 1990

Phone: 312-996-2794
Fax: 312-413-0440
E-Mail: nmoruzzi@uic.edu

Full Vita

Fields of Interest:
Political Theory, Feminist Theory, Politics of Social Identity, Middle Eastern and Islamic Women, Film Studies

Selected Publications:
 "Tied Up in Tehran: A Metaphor” Middle East Report, Spring 2009, No. 250, 18-23  


“Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2008, 225-234
 
“From Parvenu to Pariah: Hannah Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen” in Samuel Fleischacker, ed., Heidegger’s Jewish Followers
(Pittsburgh: Duquesne Press, 2008), 28-42, notes 250-253
 
“Dialogue of Civilizations and Political Thought” in Fred Dallmayr and Abbas Manoochehri, eds., Mohammed Khatami, intro.,
Civilizational Dialogue and Political Thought: Tehran Papers (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007), 19-23

Norma Claire Moruzzi and Fatemeh Sadeghi, “Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire: Young Iranian Women Today” Middle East Report, Winter 2006, No. 241, 22-28

“Strange Bedfellows: The Question of Lawrence Oliphant’s Christian Zionism” Modern Judaism, Vol. 26, no. 1 (February 2006), 55-73

“Cutting through Culture: The Feminist Discourse on Female Circumcision” in Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 14, no. 2  (Summer 2005), 203-220

Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity; Cornell University Press,  2000. 

"Women in Iran: Notes on Film and from the Field" in Feminist Studies, (Spring 2001).

"The Question of Feminism in the Islamic Republic," in the Iranian journal Goft-o-Gu (Dialogue),  (Summer 2000).

"Women's Space/Cinema Space: Representations of Public and Private in Iranian Films," in MERIP (October, 1999).

"Asking the Question/Telling a Story: Writing on Hannah Arendt." in Scott Denham, Irene Kacandes, Jonathan petropulos, eds., German Studies as Cultural Studies: a User's Manual, (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press, 1997).

"A Problem with Headscarves: Contemporary Complexities of Political and Social Identity" in Political Theory, (November, 1994).

"National Abjects: Julia Kristeva on the Process of Political Self-Identification" in Kelly Oliver, ed., Ethics, Politics, and Difference in Julia Kristeva's Writings, (New York: Routledge, 1993).

"Veiled Agents: Political Action and the Feminine in The Battle of Algiers" in Sue Fisher and Kathy Davis, eds., Negotiating at the Margins: The Gendered Discourses of Power and Resistance, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993).

"Re-Placing the Margin: (Non) Representations of Colonialism in Hannah Arendt's The Origin of Totalitarianism" in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, "Redefining Marginality" issue, (Spring, 1991).

Current Research Areas:
Issues of social identity involving gender, religion, and nationality, especially Jewish and Islamic identities.

Current project an investigation of Iranian women's inter-related political and personal experiences and their construction of a contemporary national identity.

Selected Activities and Honors:
Field work in Iran, multiple trips from 2000 to present.

2002 Gradiva Award, Best Book: Social Theory
National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis

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