Homa Hoodfar, Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, Concordia University

Homa Hoodfar, Professor Emerita, Concordia UniversityHoma Hoodfar is Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at Concordia University, Montreal.  Her primary research and expertise lies in legal and political anthropology. She examines the intersection of political economy; gender and citizenship rights; women’s formal and informal politics, gender and public sphere  in Muslim contexts.

Professor Hoodfar has also been actively involved in Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML) Network’s  Research and Publication Division since 1980s.  Her publications include:  Women’s Sport as Politics in Muslim Contexts WLUML (2015); Sexuality in Muslim Contexts: Restrictions and Resistance (edited with Anissa Hellie). London: Zed Books (2012);   Electoral Politics: Making Quotas work for women   London: WLUML (2011)  (co-authored with Mona Tajali).  The Muslim Veil in North America: issues and debates (Edited)  with Sajida Alvi, and Sheila McDonough, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press (2003). Between Marriage and the Market, Berkeley: University of California Press(1997); Development, Change, and Gender in Cairo: A View from the Household. (edited with Diane Singerman) Indiana University Press, and numerous articles  based on her different research projects.

Professor Hoodfar was detained in Tehran’s Evin prison for 112 days in 2016. The Iranian-Canadian Professor of Anthropology was arrested while visiting and conducting research in Iran. Prosecutors in Iran accused Hoodfar of “dabbling in feminism.”