Elaheh Mohammadi is a Marie Curie fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). Her current research project, funded by the European Commission (URDER), focuses on value and valuation processes in academia. In her previous research at IHS, she worked on the intersection of care, body, and policy, including her collaboration on FWF-funded research CLIDE. 

Fellowships and Scholarly Visits:

Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, Columbia University, USA (Sep 2024 - Feb 2025).

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action, Institute for Advanced Studies, Austria (Jun 2022- May 2024).

Erasmus+, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria (Sep 2017 - Jun 2018).

Erasmus+, Department of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria (Sep 2018 - Dec 2018).  

Research Fellowship, Department of Sociology & MUNK School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto, Canada (Jan 2017 - May 2017).

Education:

Ph.D.  in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

MA in Sociology, Masaryk University, Czech Republic.

MSc in Tech. Management, Staffordshire University & Asia Pacific Institute of Information Tech., Malaysia.

BSc in Electrical Engineering, Azad University of Najafabad, Iran.

Recent Peer-Reviewed Publications:

Thomas Koenig. and Mohammadi, E., (forthcoming) Europeanising academia: The curious case of ‘scientific excellence’. To appear in: Journal of European Integration History. (Special issue:  cooperation and competition in European science).

Mohammadi, E. and Durnova, A., (2021). Policy expertise and culture: the case of “civil sexuality” in Iran. International Review of Public Policy, 3(3.3), pp. 314-334. ( journals.openedition.org/irpp/2030)

Durnova, A. and Mohammadi, E., (2021). Intimacy, home, and emotions in the era of the pandemic. Sociology Compass, pp. 1-10. (https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/soc4.12852

Mohammadi, E., (2018). Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment. International Sociology: Journal of the International Sociological Association /ISA, University College Cardiff Press, 33/2018, No. 2, pp. 237-239. (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0268580918757117a?journalCode=issa) 

Manuscript: 

Mohammadi, E. (2020). Global Inspirations and Plastic Modesty: The Case of Intimacy and Composite Gender Arrangements in Iran (Doctoral Dissertation, Masaryk University). (https://irihs.ihs.ac.at/id/eprint/5681/)

Mohammadi, E. (2014). The contentious body: On representation of woman's body in the Iranian public sphere. (MA Thesis, Masaryk University). (chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://is.muni.cz/th/zu64a/Elaheh_Mohammadi.pdf 

Selected Conference Presentations and Lectures:

Mohammadi, E. (Feb 2024). Excellence is Blind: Diversity and Axiological Neutrality in European Academia Decolonizing Social Sciences: Theory and Policy Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria.

Mohammadi, E. (Nov 2023). Understanding the Role of Diversity in European Research. Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences Workshop, Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS), Vienna, Austria.

Mohammadi, E. (May 2023). Policy Expertise and Culture – The Case of “Civil Sexuality” in  Iran. Sociology Lecture Series. Department of Sociology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

Mohammadi, E. (Aug 2021). A weeklong lecture on the Politics of Emotions and Decision  Making. European Forum Alpbach. Alpbach, Austria.

Mohammadi, E. and Durnová, A. (Sep 2021). Re-thinking political sociology of emotions:  autonomy and liberal democracy in pandemic times. European Consortium for Political  Research (ECPR) general conference, Virtual.

Workshop/Conference (Include chairing session):

Workshop Organizer, “Opening peer review to independent research”, IHS, (May 2024)

Workshop Organizer and Session Chair, “Decolonizing Social Sciences: Theory and Policy”, IHS, (April 2024)

Session Co-chair, What is “Openness” in Open Science? The case of publicly funded research and its implicit expectations, Science and Technology Studies (STS)- Graz, Graz, (May 2023)

Session Co-chair, Open Panel in European Conference On Politics and Gender (ECPG), (Jul 2022).

Teaching:

Lecturer for Seminar course in Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018).

Teaching Assistant for the course Sociological Theory, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2018).

Teaching Assistant for the course Cultural Sociology, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2016).

Co-lecturer for the course Sexualities and Gender: East-West Debates, Department of Sociology, Masaryk University (Autumn 2015).