Chubin, Fae

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Education

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

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Courses Taught

Introduction to Sociology
Contemporary Issues and Social Solutions
Global Sociology
Sociology of Childhood

Career Specialties

Fae Chubin's areas of expertise include race, class, and gender, social movements, and transnational activism.

Chubin's research and teaching broach comparative and intersectional examinations of gender, race and class, identity politics and the resistance of subaltern women. Her upcoming book "Becoming Proper: Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran" examines the class and ethnic discourses of respectability entangled with Iran’s middle-class feminism to demonstrate how attempts for women’s liberation can facilitate class and ethnic hierarchies. Her book examines the translation and adaptation processes involved in the implementation of social programs in marginalized cultural contexts and the importance of cultural competency for transnational activists.

Professional and Community Activities

Chubin’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Sexualities, the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, Women’s Studies International Forum, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society and Sociological Inquiry. She has a book chapter in "The New Global Politics: Global Social Movement in the 21st Century" and is contributing a chapter on feminist and NGO interventions around genital surgeries to an edited volume titled "Consuming Bodies: Body Commodification and Embodiment in Late Capitalist Societies." 

Honors and Awards

2023 Research Innovation and Scholarly Excellence Grant, The University of Tampa
2021 Teaching Excellence: Innovative Teaching Grant, Bradley University
2016 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of South Florida     
2016 H, F & M Charitable Scholarship, Center for Strategic & Diplomatic Studies, University of South Florida
2012 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award, Institutional Ethnography Division, George Smith Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
2010 Judith Ochshorn Memorial Scholarship, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, University of South Florida