Current Position:

• September 2024 – August 2026, Guest Scholar, the Childism Institute, Department of Education and Sports Science, University of Stavanger, Norway.
• July 2018 – Lecturer, the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• 2015-2018, Postdoctoral Fellow, the Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Academic Studies:

• 2015 - PhD, The Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies and the Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University. Dissertation title: Javanmard, Fokoli, Boy Scout: Changing Masculinities in Modernizing Iran, Circa 1870-1940 Advisors: Prof. David Menashri and Prof. Billie Melman.
• 2010 - MA summa cum laude, Direct PhD Program, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University.
• 2006 – BA magna cum laude, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, and the Program for General and Interdisciplinary Studies, Tel Aviv University.

Publications: (see publications page)

    Research Grants:

• 2025-2027 – Mandel Scholion research group, Hebrew University of Jerusalem – "Rethinking Parenthood: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives".
• October 2023, SNF 17,480 CHF for international workshop (co-organizer).
• April 2023, Erasmus+ Faculty exchange program, University of Vienna.
• 2021-25 ISF individual grant – “A History of Children and Childhood in Modern Iran (circa 1870-1970),” grant no. 743/21, 4 year grant, 120,000 NIS per year.
• 2022 Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, 10,000 EUR for international workshop (co-organizer).

Participation in International Conferences:

• March 2025, "Iran – Rejuvenated", European Social Science History Conference, Leiden University.
• July 2024, "Children of the Constitutional Revolution", Children's History Society Conference, Newcastle.
• June 2024, conference co-organizer, "International Organizations in the Global South: Body Politics, Power Relations, Local Impacts", Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland.
• March 2024, Colloquium on "Childism and History", The Childism Institute, Online
• June 2023 (speaker and panel organizer):  "The Iranian Boy Scout Movement: New Demands of Modern Childhood and Masculinity", Society for the History of Children and Youth Annual Conference, University of Guelph, Canada.
• January 2023: "Iranian Child Weavers and the International Community", "Child Protection and the Rights of the Child: Transnational Perspectives", McMaster University, Canada (online).
• October 2022: "Demography between the Sheets: Population Decrease and Iranian Male Sexuality in the Interwar Period", Eugenic Legacies across the Middle East and North Africa, Oxford Brooks University (online).
• August 2022 (panel organizer): “Re-Imagining Childhood in Qajar Iran”, in the Association for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, University of Salamanca, Spain.
• June 2022 (workshop co-organizer): "Iranian Child Carpet Weavers during Iran's Carpet Boom", International Organizations and Body Politics in MENA History, Leibniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz.
• September 2021 “Scouting and Masculinity in Interwar Iran" in Forging Masculinities Outdoors: Open-Air Experience and Homosociality in the Age of Empire (c. 1850-1950), ETH Zürich
• August 2020 (panel organizer) Cancelled due to COVID-19: “Re-Imagining Childhood in QajarIran”, in the Association for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, University of Salamanca, Spain.
• September 2019: “Sport and physical education in Reza Shah's Iran: shaping future citizens, de-politicizing current youths” in Youth, Youngsters and Sport from Antiquity to the Modern Day, The European Committee for Sports History Congress, University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
• August 2018: "From Western Wannabe to Modern Patriot: Masculinity, Style, and Power Relations in Early 20th Century Iran" in the Association for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference, UC Irvine.
• September 2017: Discussant, ‘New Man’ in Africa, Asia and the Middle East: Practices, Networks and Mobilization, c. 1910-1960, ZMO Berlin.
• November 2016: "", Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Boston MA.
• March 2016: "Fake Collars and Fake Westernizers: Dress, Masculinity, and Social Distinction in Early 20th century Iran",
• July 2015: "Dandy or Patriot?: Westernisation, Masculinity and Social Distinction in Iran, Circa 1900-1920", Iran and the West: Converging Perspectives, Warwick University.
• June 2015: "Population Crisis, Marriage Reform and the Regulation of Male Sexuality in Interwar Iran", Gender and Crisis in History Graduate Conference, Procida, Italy.
• November 2014: "Dressing and Impressing Hegemony: Dress Reform and Hegemonic Masculinity in Interwar Iran", Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC.
• April 2014: "Javanmardi as Hegemonic Masculinity in Late-Qajar Iran", Men of Disorder: Masculinity, violence and urban networks in the modern Middle East and Central Asia - International Workshop, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg.
• June 2013: "", Constructing Nationalism in Iran from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic: International Workshop, Tel Aviv University.
• May 2013: "Dressed for Success: Westernization and the Strive for Gender and Class Hegemony in Iran, circa 1900-1940", Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges, aSymposium, organized for Gender & History Special Issue, Brown University.
• January 2012: "Of Bowties and Boy Scouts – Changing Iranian Masculinities circa 1900-1941", Women and Gender in Colonial Context Conference, Centre d'histoire de Sciences Po, Paris.
• December 2011: "The Bowtie Dilemma: Iranian Masculinity between the Two World Wars", Middle Eastern Studies Association Annual Meeting, Washington DC.

Invited Talks and Public Lectures:

• February 2025: "Children of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution", University of Oslo.
• December 2024: "Children of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution", University of Stavanger.
• November 2024: "Children of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution", University of Bergen.
• February 2024: Book talk, Iranian Masculinities Stanford University Program of Iranian Studies.
• June 2023: "Iranian Children and the Nation during the Qajar and Pahlavi Eras", Seminar at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto.
• April 2023: "International Actors and the Question of Iranian Child Carpet Weavers", Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna.
• February 2023, Iranian Masculinities Virtual book launch, Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies, University of Toronto.
• March 2021: "From Alleys to Boulevards: The Early Modernization of Tehran's Cityscape" in Lunchbreak in Tehran.
• July 2020 (cancelled due to COVID-19): "Early Iranian Newspapers as Primary Sources: Challenges and Changes", Jewish, Christian and Muslim Historical Press: Digital Practices,
• September 2019: "The Double Lives of Tehran's Youth", the Academic Marathon, Hebrew University.
• November 2018: "The Man, the Family, and the Nation in Early 20^th Century Iran", Women and Gender in Middle Eastern Spaces, Tel Aviv University.
• November 2018: On the book "The Arabic Print Revolution" by Ami Ayalon, and on working with early Iranian newspapers, Series launch: BiSfat Ever, The Historical Society of Israel.
• April 2018: "(Changing?) Generations and Approaches in Iranian Studies in Israel", Gabriel Baer Forum, Tel Aviv University
• April 2018: "Two Iranian Poets" Confederation House: The Center for Ethnic Music and Poetry, Jerusalem.
• March 2016: "Demography between the Sheets: Marriage, Love and Sexuality in Interwar Iran", the Rubin Forum of the Zvi Yavetz School for Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University.
• March 2016: "Iranian Love: Contemporary Persian Poetry" Confederation House: The Center for Ethnic Music and Poetry, Jerusalem.
• March 2016: "The King's New Clothes: Iran between East and West during the 19^th and 20^th century" Gallery talk at the Museum of Islamic Art, Jerusalem.
• February 2016: "The Marriage Reform and the Ordering of Male Sexuality in Interwar Iran", the Iranian Studies Forum at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
• June 2015: The Aran Lecture, Zvi Yavetz School for Historical Studies, "Dandies, Patriots and Bureaucrats: Westernization and Masculinity in Iran during the First Half of the Twentieth Century".
• June 2015: Discussant, "Behavioral Practice, Social Boundaries and the Marking of Identity in the Early Modern Era", joint Tel Aviv University-University of Maryland workshop.
• April 2015: Presentation of my dissertation for the Tel Aviv University Business Academic Club
• March 2015: Chosen as a representative of the Faculty of Humanities to present my dissertation in International Women's Day event, Tel Aviv University
• June 2014: "From Tehran to Tel Aviv: On the Boundary-Crossing Poetry of Forough Farrokhzad", Metulah Poetry Festival

Scholarships and Awards:

• 2013: Keren Or Prize, Feder Family Foundation, for outstanding dissertation in progress.
• 2010-2014: Nathan Rotenstreich Fellowship for Graduate Students in the Humanities.
• 2008-2010: Tel Aviv University Scholarships for Graduate Students.
• 2007: Dean Award in the Interdisciplinary Program for outstanding undergraduate students, Tel Aviv University
• 2007: An Award for Outstanding Paper, Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University
• 2003-2006: Annual Awards for Outstanding Students,Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University

Membership in Professional Association:

• Association for Iranian Studies
• Middle East Studies Association
• The Middle East & Islamic Studies Association of Israel
• Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies