Ahoo Tabatabai is a Professor of Sociology. She earned a PhD in Sociology and an MA in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her areas of teaching and research expertise include gender, sexuality and narratives of identity.
Courses Taught at Columbia College
Introduction to Theory-Based Research and Writing (PSYC/SOCI 175)
General Sociology (and Honors General Sociology)(SOCI 111)
Sociology of Gender (SOCI 210)
Family (SOCI 214)
Social Problems (SOCI 216)
Special Topics (SOCI 233)
Diversity and Society (SOCI 270)
Women and Society (SOCI 310)
Gender and Globalization (SOCI 336)
Disabilities (HUMS 375)
Human Sexuality (SOCI 385)
Fashion and Society (SOCI 388)
Contemporary Social Theory (SOCI 470)
Integrative Seminar (SOCI 495)
Sociology Internship (SOCI 499)
Publications
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2020. "Worthy: Neoliberalism and Narratives of (Im)migration" in Immigrant Women’s Voices and Integrating Feminism into Migration Theory, edited by Florence Nyemba and Rufaro Chitiyo.
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2019. "Neoliberalism and The Fight for the Child: Narratives of Queer Mothering." in New Narratives of Disability, edited by Sara E. Green and Donileen R. Loseke. Emerald Publishing.
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2019. "Mother of a Person: Neoliberalism and Narratives of Parenting Children with Disabilities." Disability & Society. DOI: 10.1080/09687599.2019.1621739
Darnell, Amy and Ahoo Tabatabai. 2017. “The Werk That Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form" in RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, edited by Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas. Springer.
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2015. Narratives of Sexual Identity: Lesbian, Queer, and Bisexual Women in Heterosexual Relationships, Lexington Books.
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2013. “Crafting Sexual Authenticity: Women’s Accounts of Relationships.” Narrative Inquiry 22: 69-85. Tabatabai, Ahoo and Annulla Linders. 2011. “Vanishing Act: Non-Straight Identity Narratives of Women in Relationships with Men and Women.” Qualitative Sociology 34: 583-599.
Tabatabai, Ahoo. 2010. “Protecting the Lesbian Border: On Individual and Communal Authenticity.” Sexualities 13:563-581.
Carlton-Ford, Steve, Morton G. Ender and Ahoo Tabatabai. 2008. “Iraqi Adolescents: Self-regard, Self-Derogation, and Perceived Threat in War.” Journal of Adolescence 31:53-75.
