Wendy DeSouza
Adjunct Professor
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Stevenson Hall 3104Biography
Wendy DeSouza (she/her/they/their) earned her Ph.D. in Middle Eastern History from UCLA in 2010. Before coming to Sonoma State, she taught courses in Middle Eastern history, Islam, and Women and Gender at UC Davis and CSU Sacramento. From 2013-2019 she was the Parsa Foundation Visiting Professor in Iranian Studies at UC Davis, where she helped develop the new Iranian Studies minor program and taught courses on Women and Gender in Iran. Her book entitled Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran (2019) explored the formation of modern discourses on masculinity and how secularism shaped modern gender roles and normative sexualities. Her current book project is a monograph of African slavery in Iran and the Persian Gulf, focusing on issues of race, gender, and sexual violence.
Education
Ph.D., Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
Academic Interests
Women, Gender and Sexuality, Middle East, Iran, Iranian History, Slavery in the Persian Gulf, Nationalism and Gender
Selected Publications & Presentations
Author, Unveiling Men: Modern Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Iran, Syracuse University Press, 2019