Nasim Basiri is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Connecticut. Her interdisciplinary scholarship engages gendercide, feminist movements, gender-based violence, human rights, revolutions, gender and globalization, prison studies, resistance studies, and feminist literary studies. Her work centers on questions of social justice, identity, and resistance, with particular attention to transnational feminist struggles and state power. Dr. Basiri has previously served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant and Online Graduate Instructor in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and as a columnist for The Independent UK (Persian edition), where she contributed critical commentary on gender, culture, and politics.
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