Dr. Mahtab Sirdani is a sociocultural anthropologist whose research focuses on Iranian diasporic communities in North America, particularly among residents in Massachusetts, USA, and British Columbia, Canada. Her work lies at the intersection of migration studies, phenomenology, the anthropology of religion, and the study of Persian language, literature, and culture.

Mahtab Sirdani has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork while living among Iranian migrant communities. In addition to her research and teaching in anthropology and religion, she brings over a decade of experience teaching Persian at all levels to native, heritage, and non-heritage students in North America. Before joining the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, she taught Persian in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Boston University.