Education

2017 University of South Florida, Ph.D. 
2011 University of SouthFlorida, M.A. 
2008 University of Tehran, B.A. 

Courses Taught

Sociology of Childhood
Introduction to Sociology
Global Sociology
Sociology of Families
Research Methods

Career Specialties

Dr. Chubin’s areas of expertise are intersectional inequality (gender, race, and class), globalization, transnational activism, and aging and the life course.

Professional and Community Activities

Dr. Chubin’s research examines local and global inequalities of power,particularly as they intersect with discourses of respectability. Her book Proper Women: Feminist and the Politics of Respectability in Iran (Temple University Press, 2024) offers an ethnographic account of the transnational activism ofa feminist NGO in Tehran that sought to empower marginalized Iranian and Afghan refugee women. The book demonstrates how class and ethnic discourses of respectability are entangled with Iran’s middle-class feminism.Her new research project offers an intersectional examination of cultural narratives of aging and midlife. Rather than treating midlife as a purely biological stage, Dr. Chubin explores it as a“cultural fiction.” Her research investigates the subtle,coercive, and persistent narratives of midlife decline produced through media, commerce, pharmaceuticals, sexology, academia, and popular expertise. Through interviews andnetnography, she also examines less-studied, transgressive narratives of aging that are diverse, idiosyncratic, complex, andunroutinized, offering alternatives to dominant discourses of “aging as decline.” Dr. Chubin’s previous research on social movements and everyday resistance has been published in the peer-reviewedjournals Sexualities, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Women’s Studies International Forum, the International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, and Sociological Inquiry. Shehas also contributed chapters to the edited volumes Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment inLate Capitalist Societies, The New Global Politics: Global Social Movements in the 21st Century, and the Encyclopedia of FamilyStudies

Honors and Awards

Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Award,University of Tampa (2023)
Teaching Excellence: Innovative Teaching Grant, BradleyUniversity (2021)
Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of South Florida(2016)