Media Appearances

Interview with Bureau Chief Tatsuya Mizumoto on U.S.-Iran relations and the current Israel-Iran military conflict, Jiji Press (Japanese news wire service), June 24, 2025.

Podcast interview, Politics 365 with Shahriar Afshar podcast, April 17, 2024. Aired on KIRN 670 AM/95.5 FM. Published on YouTube on April 25, 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Uk7tOQbso

Interview with Kourosh Ziabari from the Columbia University School of Journalism for an M.A. thesis and future article on Iranian diasporic politics, March 28, 2024.

Live interview with Ian Hoch on Iranian history and current events, WWL First News, WWL AM/FM radio (New Orleans), October 30, 2023.

Interview with Ari Hawkins of Politico Nightly for an article on the poisoning of Iranian schoolgirls, the Iranian protest movement, and Iranian women’s rights, March 2, 2023.

Podcast interview, “Contextualizing the Iranian Protests,” International Horizons podcast, Ralph Bunche Institute, January 19, 2023.  https://newbooksnetwork.com/iran-protests

Podcast interview, “Human Rights as a U.S. Foreign Policy Concern,” Vistas podcast, The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, January 12, 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/human-rights-as-a-u-s-foreign-policy-concern/id1655209760?i=1000598248035

Podcast interview on the revolutionary movement in Iran, Then & Now podcast, Luskin Center for History and Policy, UCLA, December 1, 2022. https://www.buzzsprout.com/952522/11804557

Interview with Graeme Wood of The Atlantic for an article on Iranian feminist Masih Alinejad, November 17, 2022. Graeme Wood, “Who’s Afraid of Masih Alinejad?,” The Atlantic, November 22, 2022, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/masih-alinejad-iran-hijab-protests/672204/

Podcast interview on the protest movement in Iran, Diplomatic Immunity podcast, The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, The Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, October 26, 2022. https://isd.georgetown.edu/news/diplomatic-immunity/ and https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ny4DD3mKYVqzt4sJhIOIW

Interview with Labiba Hassan, student journalist, for an article assignment on the protest movement in Iran, Claremont McKenna College, October 19, 2022.

Recorded interview with Ahmadullah Archiwal of the Voice of America Washington, D.C. for a report on the women’s protests in Iran, October 6, 2022. https://youtu.be/2DZvYfEqC4I (starting minute 14:28)

Recorded interview with Julia Fernandez, student journalist, for a report on the women’s protests in Iran for COMJO400: Radio Newsroom, Boston University, September 29, 2022.

“An Interview with Kelly J. Shannon,” Federal History: Journal of the Society for History in the Federal Government 14 (April 2022): 111-122. http://www.shfg.org/page-18363

Interview to Catarina Vasconcelos of Expresso (Portugal) for an article on Afghanistan, April 8 and April 13, 2022.

Interview with Khourosh Ziabari of Asia Times (Hong Kong) for an article on the release of British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe from detention in Iran after six years, April 1, 2022. Kourosh Ziabari, “Iran’s Hostage Diplomacy Incurs Self-Inflicted Wounds,” Asia Times, April 4, 2022, https://asiatimes.com/2022/04/irans-hostage-diplomacy-incurs-self-inflicted-wounds/

Interview with Sandzhar Khamidov of the Voice of America Russian service for a report on Saudi Arabia and a year-end report on Afghanistan, December 8, 2021. VOA, “Warmth in Turkey and Saudi Relationship,” December 9, 2021, https://www.golosameriki.com/a/turkey-saudi-relations/6348102.html. And VOA, “Afghanistan Year-End Report,” December 28, 2021, https://www.golosameriki.com/a/end-of-2021-afghanistan/6372970.html.

Interview with Majid Farrokhi of the Iran Student Correspondents Association (Tehran) for an article on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, September 9, 2021.

Interview on September 1, 2021 for an article by Natalia Ribeiro for FAU student newspaper on Afghanistan. Natalia Ribeiro, “Afghanistan Collapse to the Taliban Is Deeper Than Just U.S. Troops Leaving,” University Press, FAU, September 25, 2021, https://www.upressonline.com/2021/09/afghanistans-collapse-to-the-taliban-is-deeper-than-just-u-s-troops-leaving/     

Interview for an article on Afghan women with Cybele Mayes-Osterman of Yomiuri Shimbun (Japan), August 26, 2021.

Live 2-hour Twitter Space discussion about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan with Samina Ahsan of the Voice of America, @VOADeewa, August 12, 2021

Interview for an article on U.S.-Iran relations with Yasmin Rasidi for http://www.insideover.com and http://www.zenger.news, interview on December 11, 2020.

Podcast interview, “Women’s Human Rights in the Islamic World” with “In Conversation: An Arts and Letters Podcast,” Florida Atlantic University, recorded December 11, 2019, aired January 14, 2020. http://www.fau.edu/artsandletters/podcast/ and available through Apple Podcasts.

Live interview with KCRW 89.9 FM, NPR Los Angeles for “Press Play with Madeleine Brand” re: U.S.-Iran relations, January 9, 2020. https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/hostility-between-the-us-and-iran-how-we-got-here/how-the-us-and-iran-developed-a-fraught-relationship

Live interview with KBYR 700 AM Anchorage, Morning News & Comment segment re: current events in Egypt, August 27, 2013.

Recorded interview with KRUA 88.1 FM Anchorage re: current events in Egypt, aired July 26, 2013.

Other Events

Emcee, “Remembering the 1960s and Woodstock,” a.k.a. “Owlstock,” John O’Sullivan Memorial Event, Department of History, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, October 16, 2019.

Keynotes

“Approaching the Islamic World,” Bernath Lecture, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations luncheon, American Historical Association annual conference, New York, NY, January 5, 2020.

Invited Talks

Panelist, “120 Year of Women’s Resistance in Afghanistan and Iran,” Institute for Middle East Studies (IMES) and Gender Equality Initiative in International Affairs (GEIA), The Elliott School for International Affairs, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., March 24, 2025.

Panelist, “120 Years of Women’s Resistance in Afghanistan and Iran,” co-sponsored by The Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford Center for South Asia, and Stanford Program in Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (FGSS), Stanford, CA, May 20, 2024.

“The Ties That Bind: U.S.-Iran Relations, 1905-1953,” National Fellows Speaker Series, The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Stanford, CA, April 17, 2024.

Panelist, “The Geopolitics of the Israel-Hamas Conflict and the Changing U.S. Role in the World” panel, Virginia Tech, virtual event, March 20, 2024.

Panelist, “Woman, Life, Freedom in Historical Perspective: Domestic and International Iranian Women’s Rights Activism” in “Gender, State Power, and Body Politics – Comparative Perspectives” session, Woman, Life, Freedom – A Global Gender Protest conference, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, September 29-30, 2023.

“The Protest Movement in Iran: Evolution and Domestic and Foreign Repercussions,” PSC Virtual Expert Briefing Series, Ministry: Public Safety Canada, virtual event, March 9, 2023.

Moderator, “Spotlight on Iran: What’s Next for the Movement and Regime?” National Committee on American Foreign Policy, virtual event, January 31, 2023.

“The Current Protests in Iran in Historical Perspective,” History Majors Club, Michigan State University, virtual event, October 25, 2022.

“The Current Protests in Iran in Historical Perspective,” Hollybush Institute for Peace and Security, Rowan University, virtual event, October 6, 2022.

Panelist, “The Current Protests in Iran: A Women’s Revolution?” panel with Fatemah Sadeghi and Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Department of History and Women, Feminist, and Queer Studies Program, Vassar College, virtual event, October 3, 2022.

“Women’s Rights Are Human Rights: U.S. Foreign Policy and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan since the 1990s,” the Backer Charitable Trust Lecture, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, April 5, 2022.

Panelist, “Women’s Human Rights and Security in Afghanistan: A Dialogue on Next Steps,” roundtable with Mahnaz Afkhami, Sima Samar, Karima Bennoune, and Mahdavi Sunder, Women’s Learning Partnership and the Middle East Studies Association, virtual event, December 8, 2021.

“Women’s Human Rights in Afghanistan: Past and Present,” Gender and Women’s Studies Department, the University of Rhode Island, virtual event, November 10, 2021.

“Saving Persia from International Intrigue and Financial Disaster: The Story of W. Morgan Shuster,” The Baskerville Institute Conversation Series 2021, Salt Lake City, UT, virtual event, February 22, 2021.

“Human Rights for Women and U.S. Foreign Policy in Muslim Nations,” the UN Association of the USA Palm Beach Chapter Annual Speakers Program, Palm Beach, FL, virtual event, January 21, 2021.

“VCNY Salon,” Vassar Club of New York (VCNY), New York, NY, virtual event, January 13, 2021.

Book talk, University of Connecticut Foreign Policy Seminar Series, Storrs, CT, February 28, 2020.

Book talk, Books and Books bookstore, Coral Gables, FL, April 14, 2019.

Book talk, Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, October 18, 2018.

Book talk, Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy (CENFAD), Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, October 17, 2018.

Book talk, Center for Cold War Studies and International History, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, May 9, 2018.

“Islam, Women’s Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy since 1979,” Nichols College, Dudley, MA, March 26, 2018.

“The United States and the Cold War in the Middle East,” Humanities Texas Institute on the Cold War, Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX, June 15, 2017.

“Transnational History and U.S. Relations with the Islamic World,” Richard H. Immerman Retirement Symposium, CENFAD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, May 5, 2017.

“Muslim Women’s Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy,” U.S. Presidents and the Middle East: Truman to Obama Conference, Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, Independence, MO, July 18, 2013.

“Anger, Spite, and ‘Manly Men’: The Role of Emotion in the Versailles Treaty Battle Between Woodrow Wilson and Irish-Americans,” CENAD, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 2, 2005.

Campus Talks

Panelist, “Human Rights and the Current Crisis in Afghanistan,” panel discussion, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, Zoom event, September 9, 2021.

Moderator, “Collateral Damage: Women Write About War,” readings and panel discussion, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, Zoom event, April 14, 2021.

Moderator, “Political Pandemonium: Presidential Pop Culture from 2008 to 2020” panel, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, Zoom event, October 22, 2020.

“Women’s Rights and American Foreign Policy, Past and Present,” on “Women, Conflict, and Inequality in the World” panel, Distinguished Lecture Series, Dorothy A. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, February 25, 2019.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights poster presentation, Research Showcase, Division of Research, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, September 21, 2018.

U.S. Foreign Policy and Muslim Women’s Human Rights poster presentation, Faculty Showcase, Dorothy   F. Schmidt College of Arts & Letters, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, August 24, 2018.

“Islam, Women’s Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” on “Debating Islam and Democracy” panel, Chastain-Johnson Middle East Studies Program and PJHR Initiative, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, October 24, 2017.

“Islam, Women’s Human Rights, and U.S. Foreign Policy,” PJHR Faculty Fellows Colloquium, Peace, Justice, and Human Rights (PJHR) Initiative, FAU, Boca Raton, FL, November 19, 2015.

“Women and American Foreign Policy,” UAA Bookstore lecture series, UAA, Anchorage, AK, March 26, 2012.

“The Crisis in Egypt: Prospects and Implications for American Foreign Policy,” with Michael J. Boyle, Michael R. Dillon (moderator), Miguel Glatzer, Kenneth L. Hill, and Kelly J. Shannon, sponsored by the Political Science Department, La Salle University, Philadelphia, PA, February 11, 2011.

“Gender, the Middle East, and Western Reactions: A Conversation with Joan Scott, Todd Shepard, and Kelly Shannon,” sponsored by Temple Libraries, the Free Library of Philadelphia, and CENFAD, 2010 One Book One Philadelphia Program: Marjane Satrapi’s The Complete Persepolis, Paley Library, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 3, 2010.

Workshops

Participant and work-in-progress presenter, SHAFR Second Book Workshop, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Washington, D.C., June 25, 2025.

Presenter, pre-circulated book chapter: “Comrades and Revolutionaries: Americans and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1905-1912,” IMES Interdisciplinary Workshop, Institute for Middle East Studies, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., February 7, 2025.

Comment, pre-circulated book chapter: “Nuclear Defiance: The U.S.-Iran Standoff During the Trump Administration,” IMES Interdisciplinary Workshop, Institute for Middle East Studies, The George Washington University, Washington, D.C., September 20, 2024.

Discussant, “The Day After: Post-Conflict Diplomacy” Book Workshop, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations and The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., June 14, 2023.

Workshop Convener, “Women in the World,” SHAFR Summer Institute, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, New Orleans, LA, June 12-16, 2022.

Participant, “Turning Points in the Cold War,” SHAFR Summer Institute, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations, Madison, WI, June 29-July 3, 2009.

Presenter, pre-circulated paper, “Sending a Message: The International Campaign Against FGM Comes to the United States” in “The Expanding Human Rights Agenda” session, Temple University, CENFAD, and the International History Workshop, “Human Rights in History,” Philadelphia, PA, December 12-13, 2008.

Comment, “U.S.-Japan Discourses: From Occupation to Anime” session, Temple University, CENFAD, and the International History Workshop, “Border-Crossings: New Work in the International History of the Twentieth Century,” Philadelphia, PA, June 2-3, 2006.