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Hamideh Sedghi (June 17, 1946) is a Political Scientist and women's studies expert. She is the first Iranian woman who published works on women in Iran from a social science perspective in the United States. She has written extensively on women/gender in Iran, gender and development, the US-Middle East foreign relations, perception of Muslims in the West and International Political Economy.

Background and education
Professor Sedghi was born in Tehran, Iran and she currently resides in New York. She received a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, an MA from California State University at Chico, and an MPhil, a PhD, and a postdoctoral Fellowship from the City University of New York.

Career
Formerly a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s Department of Political Science, she also taught at Harvard University, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Vassar College, and has been a consultant to the United Nations. She is currently a Political Science professor at City University of New York, specifically Lehman College. She served as the editor of Women/Politics, of the Women and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Her current projects include Secularism and the State Under the Pahlavis and an anthology, Gender and Globalization: Critical Perspectives.

Works
Professor Sedghi has written extensively on women/gender in Iran and the Islamic world and contributed works on Islam, Muslims, and American foreign policy in the Middle East. Her most recent work is Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling, (Cambridge University Press, July 2007).

Other selected works include :

Sedghi, Hamideh. (2017). Trumpism: The Geopolitics of the United States, the Middle East and Iran. Socialism and Democracy. 31. 82-93. 10.1080/08854300.2017.1388039.

Sedghi, Hamideh. (2009). Women's Protests and the state in Iran: The One Million Signatures Campaign.

Sedghi, Hamideh. (2007). Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling and Reveiling. Cambridge University Press.

Sedghi, Hamideh. (2005). Global Feminism, Local Agendas and Actions. Socialism and Democracy. 19. 157-159. 10.1080/08854300500122381.

Sedghi, Hamideh. (2002). Muslims in the west's imagination: Myth or reality?. Socialism and Democracy. 16. 144-149. 10.1080/08854300208428311.

Sedghi, Hamideh. (1991). In Memory of Christian Bay: Scholar and Activist. New Political Science. 10. 3-15. 10.1080/07393149108429643.

Awards and other
Among her many awards include the Pennsylvania State System for Higher Education (SHEE), the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 2005 Christian Bay Award for the Best Paper presented at the American Political Science Association.