Editor of the "Iran Social Science Data Project" (www.princeton.edu/irandataportal) funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Convener of the Oxford-Princeton research cluster on "Traditional authority and transnational religious networks in contemporary Shi‘i Islam.”

Künkler, Mirjam, “The Special Court of the Clergy (Dadgah-e Vizheh-ye Ruhaniyat) and the Repression of Dissident Clergy in Iran,” in Constitutionalism, the Rule of Law and the Politics of Administration in Egypt and Iran, edited by Said Arjomand and Nathan Brown, SUNY Press, 2012. Künkler, Mirjam, “A Failed Democratic Transition. Electoral Victory and Political Defeat in Iran,” in Actors, Institutions and Regime Resiliency: New Challenges to Democracy from Old Sources, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Douglas Chalmers, Notre Dame University Press, 2012, 166-202. Künkler, Mirjam and Roja Fazaeli, “ The life of two mujtahidahs: Female Religious Authority in 20th century Iran” in Women, Leadership and Mosques: Contemporary Islamic Authority, edited by Masooda Bano and Hilary Kalmbach, Brill Publishers, 2011, 127-160.

post-revolutionary politics, particularly constitutional and legal developments, social movements in post-1979 Iran, female religious authority in Shi'ism

Politics

Assistant Professor, Princeton University