Dr. Sivan Balslev is a historian of modern Iran, specializing in sociocultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries, with emphasis on children, gender, and sexuality. Her first book, Iranian Masculinities: Gender and Sexuality in Late Qajar and Early Pahlavi Iran was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019, and translated in Persian in Iran. In 2021, she won an ISF research grant titled "The History of Children in Modern Iran, 1870-1970". Her articles were published in leading journals such as Gender & History, Labor History, and Iranian Studies.

Courses taught:

Modern Iran; Culture and Resistance in Modern Iran; The History of Children in the Modern Middle East; Masculinity, Society and Politics in Modern Iran

Recent publications:

Balslev, Sivan. 2024. “The School Principal and the Children: Patriarchy and Changing Childhoods in Jalāl Āl-e Ahmad’s Novella.” Iranian Studies 57 (3): 431-450. 
Balslev, Sivan. 2024. "International Organizations and the Question of Child Labor in the Iranian Carpet Industry". Labor History. https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2024.2318196
Balslev, Sivan. 2024. "Scouting in Iran Amid Changing Practices of Masculinity and Childhood". Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.  https://doi.org/10.1080/03086534.2024.2325737