Dr. Fatemeh Zolfagharian
Curriculum Vitae
- Women and Gender Studies
- Government and Institutional Empowerment
- Policy-Making and Policy Analysis
- Power and Governance Studies
- Interdisciplinary Research on Governance and Gender
2022–present
Peer Reviewer for academic journals in the field of Political Science
2025–2026
Executive Secretary, Fourth Conference on State Studies: Capable State, Empowered Society, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
2025–2026
Member of the Scientific Committee, Fourth Conference on State Studies: Capable State, Empowered Society, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
2023–2026
Teaching experience, Department of Political Science, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
2021–2022
Author of the section on "The Philosophy of Women's Empowering Universities" in the Strategic Development Document of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
2018–2024
Editor of the student magazine “Irandokht.”
2018–2022
Head of the Women's Studies Working Group at the Iranian Political Science Association
2018–2022
Internal manager of the English Journal of “Iranian Political Studies.”
Nov 2018
Executive organizer of the conference "Millennium of Khajeh Nizam-ol-Molk Tusi."
2010–2012
Collaboration in the International Journal of Human Rights at Mofid University, Iran
2018–2022
Ph.D. in Political Science
Thesis title: “Analysis of the Phenomena of Women in the Thought of Iranian Intellectuals According to the Concept of Evolution”
Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran
2008–2010
Master of Political Science
Thesis title: “Political Thought in Hafez's Poems”
Mofid University, Qom, Iran
2003–2007
Bachelor of Political Science
Allamah Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran
2026–
Research Fellow, TU Dortmund
2019–2022
Ph.D. Exceptional Talent Student, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
Publications
Zolfagharian, F., Taqavi, S. M. A., & Atheri, S. H. (2024). Zanān be mesābeh-ye sūzhe-ye enqelābī dar andīshe-ye Sharīʿatī [Women as a revolutionary subject in the thought of Ali Shariati]. Pazhuhesh-e Siasat-e Nazari [Journal of Theoretical Politics Research], 19(36), 59–86. (In Persian).
Zolfagharian, F., & Eslami, R. (2024). Vākāvī-ye angāreh-hā-ye sīyāsī dar andīshe-ye ekofeminism [Exploring political concepts in ecofeminist thought]. Hoquq va Motaleat-e Siasi [Journal of Law and Political Studies], 3(4), 443–457. (In Persian). https://doi.org/10.48309/jlps.2024.473895.1192
Zolfagharian, F., & Atheri, S. H. (2020). Taḥlīl-e esteʿāreh-hā-ye ṭard-e zanān az ʿarse-ye sīyāsat dar andarznāmeh-hā-ye sade-ye miyāneh [An analysis of metaphors of women’s exclusion from politics in medieval mirrors for princes]. Pazhuhesh-e Siasat-e Nazari [Journal of Theoretical Politics Research], 139–160. (In Persian).
Zolfagharian, F., & Kouchaki, A. (2023). Jostārī pīrāmūn-e būm-shenāsī-ye sīyāsī [An inquiry into political ecology]. Faslnameh-ye Olum-e Mohiti [Quarterly Journal of Environmental Sciences], 21(2), 229–246. (In Persian). https://dx.doi.org/10.48308/envs.2023.1312
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2025). Taḥlīl-e sīyāsat-gozārī-ye farhangī dar Īrān: bāzigarān, moṭālebāt va rāhkārhā-ye tanẓīmgarī dar bastar-e taḥavvolāt-e ejtemāʿī [Cultural policy-making in Iran: Actors, demands, and regulatory strategies in the context of social transformations]. Motaleat-e Rahbordi-ye Farhang [Strategic Cultural Studies], 5(20), 9–29. (In Persian).
Masoudi, H., Sinaei, V., & Zolfagharian, F. (2024). Tabyīn-e ejtemāʿī, sākhṭārī va fardī-ye eshteghāl-pazīrī-ye zanān dar ʿolūm-e sīyāsī [Social, structural, and individual explanations of women’s employability in political science]. Faslnameh-ye Motaleat va Tahqiqat-e Ejtemāʿī dar Īrān [Quarterly Journal of Social Studies and Research in Iran], 13(1), 127–144. (In Persian).
Zolfagharian, F. (2021). Padīdār-e zīst-mohīṭī dar andīshe-ye sīyāsī-ye Īrān-e bāstān [Environmental thought in ancient Iranian political thought]. Motaleat-e Miyan-Reshtei dar Olum-e Ensani [Interdisciplinary Human Sciences Studies], 3(51), 131–156. (In Persian).
Zolfagharian, F., & Manshadi, M. (2019). Padīdār-e vārunah-ye khīshkārī-ye ṭabaqātī dar Akhlāq al-Ashrāf-e ʿObeyd Zākānī [The inverted phenomenon of class function in Obeyd Zakani’s Akhlaq al-Ashraf]. Jameh Shenasi-ye Siasi-ye Iran [Iranian Political Sociology Journal], 1(5), 75–93. (In Persian).
Rahbar, A., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Emkān-hā-ye jahān-e zīstī-ye Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Īrān barāye moshārekat-e sīyāsī [The lifeworld possibilities of the Islamic Republic of Iran for political participation]. Rahbord [Strategic Studies Quarterly], 20(60), 81–112. (In Persian).
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Ḥokūmatmandī-ye elāhiyāt-e sīyāsī dar ʿaṣr-e ettelāʿāt [The governmentality of political theology in the information age]. Pazhuhesh-haye Ravabet-e Beynolmelal [International Relations Studies], 1(3), 187–213. (In Persian).
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Ḥokūmatmandī-ye elāhiyāt-e sīyāsī dar tārīkh-e falsafe-ye sīyāsī [The governmentality of political theology in the history of political philosophy]. Pazhuhesh-e Siasat-e Nazari [Journal of Theoretical Politics Research], 1(9), 1–19. (In Persian).
Rahbar, A., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Rahbord-hā-ye amniyatī-ye gharb dar barkhord bā bīdārī-ye jahān-e Eslām [Western security strategies toward the Islamic awakening]. Afaq-e Amniyat [Security Horizons Journal], 4(13), 47–69. (In Persian).
Khaleqi-Damghani, A., & Zolfagharian, F. (2010). Sīyāsat dar ʿaṣr-e ettelāʿāt az manẓar-e postmodernism [Politics in the information age from the perspective of postmodernism]. Afaq-e Amniyat [Security Horizons Journal], 103–119. (In Persian).
Rahbar, A., & Zolfagharian, F. (2012). Amvāj-e bīdārī-ye jahān-e Eslām [Waves of the Islamic awakening]. Siasat-e Khareji [Foreign Policy Journal], 26(4), 913–934. (In Persian).
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Padīdārshenāsī-ye elzāmāt-e dīplomāsī-ye Eslāmī [A phenomenology of the requirements of Islamic diplomacy]. Siasat-e Khareji [Foreign Policy Journal], 25(4), 952–974. (In Persian).
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2011). Zavāl-e teknīk-hā-ye qodrat-e dīplomātīk dar pāyān-e ʿahd-e Qājār [The decline of diplomatic power techniques at the end of the Qajar era]. Tarikh-e Ravabet-e Khareji [History of Foreign Relations Journal], 13(49), 1–35. (In Persian).
Eslami, R., & Zolfagharian, F. (2012). Naqd-e hoqūq-e bashar dar ofoq-e ḥokūmatmandī [A critique of human rights in the horizon of governmentality]. Siasat-e Khareji [Foreign Policy Journal], 26(2), 345–361. (In Persian).
Rahbar, A., & Zolfagharian, F. (2010). Sāzeh-hā-ye maʿnāgarā dar ḥokūmatmandī-ye Bustān-e Saʿdī [Meaning-oriented constructs in the governmentality of Saadi’s Bustan]. Pazhuhesh-e Siasat [Journal of Political Research], 12(29), 173–195. (In Persian).
Zolfagharian, Fatemeh. Az madrese tā khiābān: Zanān va taghyīrāt-e ejtemāʿī [From School to the Street: Women and Social Change]. Tehran: Roshangaran Publications, forthcoming,.
Eslamishabjereh, Rouholah, Zolfagharian, Fatemeh, Pegah Latifi. An Introduction to the Policy Process. Bīrkland, T. A. Persian translation by R. Eslami Shabjereh, P. Latifi, & F. Zolfagharian. Mashhad: Ferdowsi University of Mashhad Press, 2026.
Eslamishabjereh, Rouholah, Zolfagharian, Fatemeh . Siyāsat-gozārī-ye Āb [Water Policy]. Mashhad: Mohaqeq Publications, 2026.
Zolfagharian, Fatemeh. Siyāsat-andīshī-ye Ḥāfeẓ [Political Thought in Hafez]. Tehran: Felat Publications, 2016.
Oct 2022
The International Conference on “Politics, Women's Studies, and the Future." Presenting the article “Requirements and Missions of Women-Empowering Universities.”
2021–2022
Author of the section “The Philosophy of Women’s Empowering Universities,” Strategic Development Document of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad.