Amy Malek

Amy is a sociocultural anthropologist and lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her primary research interests include migration, diaspora and transnationalism, ethnicity, cultural production, cultural policy, and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on Iranian communities in North America and Europe. Amy serves on the Board of Advisors of Iranian Alliances Across Borders (IAAB), a non-profit organization serving the Iranian diaspora community, and as the editor of Yadashts, a blog related to Iranian diaspora arts and culture. In summer 2010, she organized and curated Document: Iranian Americans in Los Angeles, a documentary photography exhibition exploring second generation Iranian Americans in L.A. at the UCLA Fowler Museum. In 2012, she served as the director of the Fifth International Conference on the Iranian Diaspora. Amy and her work have been covered by media outlets such as the BBC, L.A. Times, and Le Monde M.