Shireen Hunter

Shireen Tahmaaseb Hunter is an Iranian-American independent scholar. Until 2019, she was a research professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding (ACMCU) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., with which she had been associated since 2005 as a visiting fellow and then visiting professor She became an honorary fellow of ACMCU in September 2019. Hunter's field research about Azerbaijan's political elite and their pan-Turkist irredentist views towards Iran puts emphasis on the detestation by such elites of Iranian Azeri nationalists. According to Hunter, the existence of pro-Iranian sentiments among the inhabitants of the southern parts of the Azerbaijan Republic serve as evidence that concerns of this kind are perhaps legitimate.

In 2021, Hunter was named by Carnegie Corporation of New York as an honoree of the Great Immigrants Award