Stella Morgana is a scholar and researcher, focusing on the Middle East and Iran in particular. She has been awarded a British Academy Post-doctoral fellowship with the University of Liverpool for her project on gig workers and digital labour in Iran. She has been nominated Research Culture Champion 2024.
(photo credits: Gareth Jones)
Her research focuses on:
the dynamics of political and economic participation;
labor history and politics;
the politics of the digital and the role of AI;
hegemonic versus counter-hegemonic discourses.
Before her BA fellowship, Stella was Lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. She taught “Middle East History & Politics”, “The Politics of Labour and Inequality in the Middle East”, “International Relations of the Middle East”, “The Middle East after the Arab Spring: Transitional Justice”, “Climate Change and Environmental Politics in the Middle East,” “Decolonial Practices: challenging race, coloniality and class.”
Listen to Stella Morgana’s podcast interview - University of Liverpool’s Tales from the Square
Before joining UvA, she held teaching and research positions at Leiden University (Middle Eastern Studies - History of Contemporary Iran).
Currently, she is working on a book project on labour, workers and contentious politics in post-revolutionary Iran.
The fruits of her work appeared in the International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, International Labour and Working-Class History, Middle East Institute, Iranian Studies, IRAN- the British Journal for Persian Studies, along with commentaries and op-ed articles in The Conversation, ISPI, Il Mulino, Left, il manifesto among others.
“Learning takes place especially through a spontaneous and autonomous effort of the pupil, with the teacher only exercising a function of friendly guide—as happens or should happen in the university. To discover a truth oneself, without external suggestions or assistance, is to create— even if the truth is an old one.”
Antonio Gramsci
