Mahtab Sirdani is a PhD candidate in sociocultural anthropology at Boston University. Her research focuses on Iranian communities in North America, especially Muslim residents of Massachusetts in the United States and Vancouver, BC in Canada. Mahtab received an M.T.S. from Harvard Divinity School in 2016, focusing on Religion, Literature, and Culture. She also holds an M.A. in Linguistics from Allameh Tabatabi University in Tehran, Iran.

She was an instructor of Modern Persian in the World Languages and Literatures Department and a teaching fellow in the Anthropology Department at Boston University.

Area of Specialization: Socio-cultural Anthropology; Migration

Area of Competence: Persian Language and Literature; Women and Gender Studies; Islam in the West

Graduate Student Prize of Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran, May 2007

Graduate Student Departmental Summer Research Grant, Boston University, 2018

CURA Colloquium Fellowship, Boston University Pardee School of Global Studies, 2019-2020

Cora du Bois Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Harvard University, Spring 2023