Mona Tajali

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  • Associate Professor of International Relations and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Stanford University

Mona Tajali is a scholar of gender and politics, specializing in women's political participation and representation in Muslim countries, with a comparative focus on Iran, Afghanistan, and Turkey. Her research includes analysis of feminist mobilization against patriarchal structures as well as the experiences of institutionalization of women's rights in semi-democratic and non-democratic contexts. She is the author of Women’s Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table (2022) and co-author of Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women (2011), both published as open access. She is also the co-editor of Women and Constitutions in Muslim Contexts (2024), the first compilation analyzing several national constitutions of the Muslim world through a gender lens.

Experience

  • 2024–present
    Lecturer, Stanford Universtiy
  • 2016–2024
    Associate Professor, Agnes Scott College

Education

  • 2014 
    Concordia University , PhD

Publications

  • 2024
    Women and Constitutions in Muslim Contexts, Revival Press
  • 2022
    Women's Political Representation in Iran and Turkey: Demanding a Seat at the Table, Edinburgh University Press
  • 2011
    Electoral Politics: Making Quotas Work for Women, WLUML Publications

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