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*Women of Karbala Moving to America<ref>https://works.bepress.com/maryelaine-hegland/22/</ref> | *Women of Karbala Moving to America<ref>https://works.bepress.com/maryelaine-hegland/22/</ref> | ||
*Shi’a Women’s Rituals in Northwest Pakistan<ref>https://works.bepress.com/maryelaine-hegland/16/</ref> | *Shi’a Women’s Rituals in Northwest Pakistan<ref>https://works.bepress.com/maryelaine-hegland/16/</ref> | ||
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* [https://www.scu.edu/cas/anthropology/faculty/mary-hegland/ Santa Clara University] | |||
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Revision as of 16:31, 24 September 2019
Mary Elaine Hegland is a professor in Santa Clara University in the field of Anthropology.[1] Her field work has been in the Middle East and South Asia: Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Afghanistan.
Biography
She has worked among Iranian Americans in the Bay Area of California and involves students in research projects among people of Iranian and other Middle Eastern backgrounds in the Santa Clara area. Dr. Hegland’s publications deal with the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979; women and gender in religion and politics in Iran; change and continuity in an Iranian village; and women and gender in Shia Muslim rituals in Pakistan. Currently, Dr. Hegland is conducting research about aging and the elderly in Iran and among Iranian Americans in California’s San Francisco Bay Area. She also plans to study women and gender and family hierarchy and dynamics as related to aging and the elderly in Tajikistan.