Faculty Profiles

Sahar Sadeghi

Associate Professor, Sociology
Sociology & Anthropology
484-664-3439

[email protected]

Education

  • Ph.D., sociology, Temple University
  • M.A., sociology, Temple University
  • B.A., sociology, University of California, Davis

Teaching Interests

I am a visiting assistant professor of sociology at Muhlenberg College and teach a variety of courses including the sociology of inequality and power, American ethnic diversity, transnational migrant communities, global perspectives on race and racism as well as sociological theory. I am also a faculty mentor for a number of students working on their undergraduate research projects. During the 2016-2017 academic year, I taught the 2017 senior sociology seminar (CUE) course mentoring the department’s seniors in their independent research projects. Learn more about the final projects for the 2017 CUE here. 

 

Research, Scholarship or Creative/Artistic Interests

My research is organized around several interrelated projects and themes—migration and geopolitics, as well as racialized and politicized belonging—which are examined through a cross-national, qualitative methods approach with a regional specialization in contemporary Europe and the United States.  In my most recent work, I consider how the rise of anti-immigrant movements across Europe, the 2015 Refugee Crisis and the 2016 Iran Deal are reflected in the perceptions and experiences of belonging and membership of Iranians in the United States and Germany.

 

  • Sociology Independent Study/Research: The Worker Co-op
  • Sociology Internship: Muhlenberg Athletics
  • The Daniel J. and Carol Shiner Wilson Grant for the Completion of Scholarly Projects, 2022

2016-2017, Faculty Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis Research, Alison Smith, Muhlenberg College

  • Alison Smith presented her research project at the 2017 Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

2015-2106, Faculty Advisor, Senior Honors Thesis Research, Jeffrey Funk, Muhlenberg College

  • Jeff Funk presented his Honors Thesis Project at the 2016 Eastern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
  • Sadeghi, Sahar. The Burden of Geopolitical Stigma: Iranian Immigrants and Their Adult Children in the US, Journal of International Migration and Integration, (2016). 17:1109-1124
  • Sadeghi, Sahar. Boundaries of Belonging: Iranian immigrants and their Adult Children in the United States and Germany, in Identity and Exile: The Iranian Community in Europe edited by Resa Mohabbat-Kar. Berlin, Germany: Heinrich Boll Foundation. (2016).
  • Sadeghi, Sahar. The Zoot Suit Riots, and Emergency Quota Act of 1921 in Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia, edited by Kathleen Arnold, Greenwood Press. (2011).
  • Sadeghi, Sahar. (Accepted) Host Discrimination, Bounded Belonging, Bounded Mobility: Experiences of Iranian Immigrants in Germany, in Iranians in Diaspora: Ethnic Negotiations and Cultural Transformations, edited by Mohsen Mobasher. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press.




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