Jairan Gahan is assistant professor of history and religious studies at the University of Alberta. Her research investigates the intersections of women’s history, Islam, and modern state formations, spanning the 20th century in Iran. Currently, she is working on two projects. Her book project is tentatively titled Red-light Tehran: Prostitution, Islamisms, and the Rule of the Sovereign, 1915-1981. The most recent publication out of this project is “The Sovereign and the Sensible: Islam, Prostitution, and Moral Order in Tehran, 1911-1922” in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Her second project explores the legal history of sex in the 20th century from the margins of legitimacy.
Reyhaneh Javadi is a Ph.D. student of sociology at the University of Alberta. She received her MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology from Central European University. She obtained her other MA and her BA in sociology from the University of Tehran, where she also worked as a social researcher. She is currently focused on law as a social construct in the Iranian setting and she has previously worked on the struggle over the monopoly of rights in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and the short-term juridical and political reforms in the Nasseri Era. Her research interests include law and society, social movements, sociology of gender, and political sociology.
