- Assistant Professor of Iranian history and
culture University of Michigan.
- Babayan
Kathryn,
- "Darvish Reza," Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "Martin
B. Dickson," Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "Eshik Aqasi Bashi," Encyclopaedia
Iranica.
- "Emad al-Din Muhammad Tahir Vahid
Qazvini," Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "Eunuchs under the Safavi,"
Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "Evoghlu," Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "Ghulam,"Encyclopaedia Iranica.
- "The Safavi Synthesis: From Qizilbash Islam
to Imamite Shi'ism," Iranian Studies, Volume
27 (1994), a volume on pre-modern Iran, Said Amir
Arjomand (ed.).
- "Sufis, Darvishes, and Mullas: The
Controversy Over Spiritual and Temporal Dominion
in 17th centruy Safavi Iran," Safavid
Persia, Charles Melville (ed.), I.B. Tauris,
1996.
- "The 'Aqâîd al-Nisâ': A Glimpse at Safavi
Women in Local Isfahani Culture" Women in
the Medieval Islamic World, Gavin Hambly (ed.),
St. Martin's Press, 1998.
- Book review of Jamal Elias's The Throne Carrier
of God: The Life and Thought of 'Ala' ad-dawla
as-Simnânî, Journal of American Oriental
Society (Forthcoming 1998).
- Messiahs, Mystics and Monarchs: The Spiritual
Landscape of the Qizilbash in Early Modern Iran,
forthcoming book.
- "From Tabriz to Isfahan: The Reconfiguration
of the Safavi Household," Third Safavid
Round Table, University of Edinburgh, August
19-22.
- "The Waning of the Qizilbash and the
Emergence of Ghulams (slaves) at the Safavi
Court," presenter and chair of panel
entitled "New Elites of Isfahan: Patronage,
Esthetics and Power in Safavid Iran," Second
Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies
(SIS/AIIS), Washington DC, May 22-24.
- "Shah Tahmasp's Memoirs as Personal and
Imperial History, conference on "Safavid
Iran and Her Neighbors," University of Utah,
May 8-9.
- "From Intuition to Reason: The Hardening of
Gender Lines in Early Modern Iran," an
interdisciplinary conference on "The
Rhetorics and Ritual of (Un)Veiling in Early
Modern Europe," University of Michigan,
October 1997.
- "The Persianate Flavor of Qizilbash Islam:
Sufism and 'Alid Ghuluww," an international
conference on late classical Sufism entitled
"Persianate Sufism in the Safavid &
Mughal Period," School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London, May 1997.
- The 'Aqaîd al-Nisâ or Kulsûm Naneh: A
Seventeenth Century Clerics' Representation of
Female Culture in Isfahan," symposium on
"The Marketplace of Identities:
Cross-Cultural Themes in 17th Century
Isfahan," sponsored by the Getty Center for
the History of Art and the Humanities of the J.
Paul Getty Museum, and Gustav E. von Grunebaum
Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA, January
1996.
- "The Turco-Mongol Ingredients of the Safavi
Synthesis," Middle East Association of North
America, 28th Annual Conference, Phoenix,
Arizona, Fall 1994.
- "The Shari'a-minded Response to Safavi
Eclecticism," Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, Harvard University, Spring 1994.
- "The Spiritual and the Temporal in
Safavi Iran," Department of Near Eastern
Studies, University of Michigan.
- "The Radds Against Sufis: A Symptom of
the Waning of the Qizilbash," University of
Cambridge, Pembroke College, September 1993.
- "Qizilbash Islam," University of
Pennsylvania, conference on Cultural Production
and Cultural History in the Middle East and South
Asia 1500-1900, May 1993.
- "Abu Muslim: Victim to the Waning of the
Qizilbash," Middle East Association of North
America, 25th Annual Conference, Washington,
D.C., Nov. 1991.
- Elected Member on the Council of the Society for
Iranian Studies 1996-99
- Member of the American Historical Association
- Member of the Middle East Studies Association
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