Ladan Rahbari (PhD Mult.) is a political sociologist and an associate professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam, and a senior researcher at the International Migration Institute (IMI). She was formerly based at Ghent University, Belgium, as the recipient of an FWO (Research Foundation Flanders) post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2022).

She is a member of the Amsterdam Young Academy (2021-2026).

Rahbari is the co-director and a board member of the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality (ARC-GS) and a member of the board of the Amsterdam Centre for Migration Research (ACMR).

Rahbari obtained a Ph.D. in Gender and Diversity (Studies) from UGent and VUB (2019) and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Mazandaran (2015), a Master’s degree in Anthropology (Tehran University), and a Bachelor’s degree in Italian Literature (Tehran University).

Rahbari’s research interests include gender politics, migration politics, religion, body, and digital media, with a focus on Iran and Western Europe, and in the frameworks of postcolonial, feminist, and critical theories.

She is currently affiliated with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, the Amsterdam Research Centre for Gender and Sexuality, the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender (CRCG), and the Centre of Expertise on Gender, Diversity, and Intersectionality (RHEA).

Between September 2019 and September 2020, Rahbari was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies (DiGeSt).