Balaghi is a Contributing Editor of Jadaliyya and a Trustee of the American Institute of Iranian Studies. Her books include Saddam Hussein: A Biography (2005); Picturing Iran: Art, Society, and Revolution (co-edited, 2002); and Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East (Co-edited, 1994). Balaghi has published widely on Iranian visual culture and contemporary Islamic Art. She is currently completing a book on knowledge and power in Iran. Before coming to Brown, she was Associate Director of the Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at NYU for a decade. She has taught at the University of Vermont and the University of Michigan.
In Fall 2013, she is teaching Gender, Empire and Nation in the History Department. In Spring 204, she will be teaching Culture and Power in Iran in the History Department and War, Revolution, and Art in the History of Art and Architecture Department.
