Dr. Norma Claire Moruzzi

Norma Claire Moruzzi is Associate Professor of Political Science, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History, and Director of the International Studies Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her book Speaking through the Mask: Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Social Identity won the 2002 Gradiva Award, and she has published articles on the representation of Muslim women in Iranian and international cinema. She is an editor for the journal Middle East Report, and since 1998 has been regularly conducting field-work in Iran, as well as participating in and conducting workshops for women’s groups and contributing to local journals. She is currently working on a book on social transformations in Iranian women’s lives since the revolution.