Global Café will host anthropologist and Iranian diaspora expert Amy Malek for a talk, “Contests of Inclusion: A Comparative Ethnography of Iranians in the U.S. and Canada,” on Feb. 25, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Oldfather Hall, Room 827.

Malek is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in the intersections of citizenship and cultural production in the Iranian diaspora. She is an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies and assistant professor of international studies at the College of Charleston.

Her current book project is a transnational comparative ethnography building on over a decade of research among Iranians in Sweden, Canada and the United States. Malek’s previous research has been published in Memory Studies, The Middle East Journal, Anthropology of the Middle East, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East and Iranian Studies.