Research Fellow, Inst for Advanced Studies (IHS)-Vienna Elaheh Mohammadi, Ph.D. [email protected] - @elahe_mamadi https://www.ihs.ac.at/people/elaheh-mohammadi/

Education Ph.D. in Sociology (Feb 2021) Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Title: Global Inspirations and Plastic Modesty: The Case of Intimacy and Composite Gender Arrangements in Iran.

MA in Sociology (Jan 2014) Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic. Title: The Contentious Body: On Representation of Woman's Body in the Iranian Public Sphere.

MSc in Tech. Management (Aug 2011) Staffordshire University & Asia Pacific Institute of Information Tech., Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Title: “Critical Success Factors of Implementing Knowledge Management in Service Sector Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises of Malaysia.”

BSc in Electrical Engineering (Feb 2008) Islamic Azad University of Najafabad, Isfahan, Iran.

Publications [Journal article, Accepted for publication] Mohammadi, E. and Durnová, A., (forthcoming) Policy Expertise in Reproductive Rights: The Case of “Civil Sexuality” in Iran. To appear in: The International Review of Public Policy (Special issue: War on Expertise – War on Culture: Understanding the Expert-Culture Boundary in Current Policy Controversies).

[Journal article] Durnova, A. and Mohammadi, E., (2021). Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic. Sociology Compass, pp. 1-10.

[Book review] Mohammadi, E., (2018). Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment. International Sociology: Journal of the International Sociological Association /ISA, University College Cardiff Press, 33/2018, No. 2, pp. 237-239.

[Journal article] Eardley, A., Mohammadi, E. and Merliza, B., (2013). A Survey of Critical Success Factors in Implementing KM in ASEAN Service-Based SMEs. International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development (IJSKD), 5(1), pp.1-13.

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Works in Progress Durnova, A. and Mohammadi, E., Re-thinking liberal democracy in post-Covid times: autonomy, harm, self-care. Mohammadi, E., Colonial criteria of self-worth and Toolkit of Dignity and Hope: Double Consciousness and Liminal Spaces in Intimate Lives Among Low-Income Urban Iranian Women.

Conference Presentations [Presentation, to appear] Mohammadi, E. and Durnová, A. (Jul 2020). Civil Sphere theory Meets Feminism: the Case of ‘Civil Sexuality’ in Iran. The International Civil Sphere Theory (CST) Mini-conference, Brno, Czech Republic. [Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference is postponed by one year to July 2021.]

Mohammadi, E., (2015). The contentious body: On the representation of woman's body in the Iranian public sphere. 12th European Sociological Association Conference, Prague, Czech Republic.

Teaching Training and Experiences Lecturer for Seminar course in General Sociology Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018).

Teaching Assistant for the course General Sociology Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018).

Teaching Training, Department of Sociology Department of Sociology, University of Toronto (Spring 2017).

Teaching Assistant for the course Cultural Sociology Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2016).

Co-lecturer for the course Sexualities and Gender: East-West Debates Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2015).

Positions of Service Reviewer for Critical Policy Studies (since Feb 2021).

Member of the Center for the Cultural Sociology of Migration Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (since Spring 2020).

Facilitator for Hic Rosa studio sessions and conference Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (Spring 2018).

Director of the Postcolonial Studies working group conference

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Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (since Autumn 2015).

Member of Gender Match working group Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (since Autumn 2015).

Professional Experience Researcher, Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences – Centre for Gender and Science. A research project funded under the call H2020-SC1-PHE-CORONAVIRUS-2020-2 Advancing knowledge for the clinical and public health response to the 2019-nCoV epidemic, titled “RESISTIRE: RESpondIng to outbreaks through co-creaTIve sustainable inclusive equality stRatEgies”, Czech Republic (Since Jul 2021).

Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies – Vienna. A research project funded by Austrian Research Funding, titled “CLIDE: Crafting Liberal Democracy Through Self-determination: the Case of Women’s Health Care Choices”, Austria (Since Oct 2020).

Organizational Assistant, 4th mid-term conference of the Research Network on Ageing in Europe (RN01) of the European Sociological Association, Masaryk University, Czech Republic (Mar – Sep 2018).

Contributor to A2larm.cz, A Czech news media based in Prague, Czech Republic (2015).

Researcher, Division of Information and Library Studies (KISK), Masaryk University A research project on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing among academics in Brno, Czech Republic (Mar – Jul 2015).

Researcher, Public Relations and Marketing Office at Rector's Office, Masaryk University A qualitative research project on the Masaryk University website, Czech Republic (Jul – Oct 2015).

Honors and Awards

Scholarship to Support Creative Activities (Czech Republic) Inst. of Population Studies, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2013).

Scholarship for Appreciation of Extraordinary Professional Performance of MA Students (Czech Republic) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2015).

Scholarship to Support Long-Term Internship (Czech Republic) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2016).

Research Fellowship (Canada) MUNK School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto (2017).

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Study Mobility Fellowship (Czech Republic) Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2017, 2018, 2019).

Scholarship to Support Creative Activities (Czech Republic) Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2016, 2019, 2020).

Special Scholarship (Czech Republic) Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University (2017, 2019, 2020).

Research Fellowship (Austria) Institute for Advanced Studies (Institut für Höhere Studien) (2020, 2021).

Fellowships Abroad University of Graz (Erasmus Plus study visit) Department of Sociology, Graz, AT (Feb 2019 – Jun 2019).

University of Vienna (Erasmus Plus study visit) Department of Sociology, Vienna, AT (Sep 2017 – Jun 2018).

University of Toronto (Study visit) Department of Sociology, Toronto, CA (Dec 2016 – May 2017).

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