Amy Malek

Amy Malek (born c. 1979/1980), is an Iranian-American assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist. She serves as the endowed chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater. Her work focuses on the migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora. Malek is an Iranian-American.

Education and career

"...[first- and second-generation Iranian Americans are] alternately included and excluded in the only home one has known, while also feeling attachments to a place one may never have experienced and may or may not be welcome even to visit." — Amy Malek — from My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices From the Iranian Diaspora (University of Texas Press, 2020)

From 2016 to 2022, she was an assistant professor of international studies at the College of Charleston. From 2019 to 2021, Malek was an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. In the Fall of 2022, she joined Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.