Dr. Farhang Rouhani
Professor of Geography
Education
- Ph.D., Geography, University of Arizona
- M.A., Geography, University of Arizona
- B.A., Geography and English Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Biography
Dr. Rouhani earned his Ph.D. at the University of Arizona and joined UMW immediately thereafter in 2001. His courses include Introduction to Human Geography, Geography of the Middle East, Geopolitics, Global Migration Politics, Qualitative Research Methods, and Queer Space. His areas of scholarly research include the cultural and political dimensions of global migration; nationalism, transnationalism, and state formation in the Middle East; and queer Iranian and Middle Eastern diasporic politics and identities.
FSEM 100: Politics, Culture, and the Global Media; Queer Space: Geographies of Sexualities
IDIS 205: Perspectives in Sexualities (team-taught)
GEOG 102: Introduction to Human Geography (in person and virtual asynchronous)
GEOG 200: Geographies of Beer, Wine, and Spririts
GEOG 299: Geographic Research Methods
GEOG 304: Geography of the Middle East
GEOG 332: Migration Politics in a Globalizing World
GEOG 338: Geopolitics
GEOG 339: Geography and Development
GEOG 360: Study Abroad: Australia and New Zealand, Morocco
GEOG 363: Qualitative Methods in Geography
GEOG 410: Islam and the West
GEOG 490: Geography and Social Justice; Politics of Public Space; Globalization; Global Protest Movements
Seitz, D., McKeithen, W. & Rouhani, F. (2023). Radical Geographies and the Neoliberal University: Contradictions and Possibilities. Society and Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/forums/radical-geographies-and-the-neoliberal-university-contradictions-and-possibilities
Abdelhady, D., & Aly, R. (Eds.). (2022). Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266102
Rouhani, F. (2019). Belonging, desire, and queer Iranian diasporic politics. Emotion, Space and Society. 31, 126-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2018.07.003
Rouhani, F. (2015). Queering the ‘Iranian’ and the ‘Diaspora’ of the Iranian Diaspora. Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures, Routledge, 2015, pp. 371–86, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315583945-27.
Haworth, R., & Elmore, J. (Eds.). (2017). Out of the Ruins: The Emergence of Radical Informal Learning Spaces. PM Press. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=815
Brown, G., & Browne, K. (Eds.). (2016). The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315613000
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