Amy Malek (born c. 1979/1980), is an American assistant professor, scholar, and sociocultural anthropologist.
[1] She serves as the endowed Chair and Director in Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (IPGS) at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater.
[2] Her work focuses on the migration, citizenship, memory, and culture in the Iranian diaspora.
[4] "...[first- and second-generation Iranian Americans are] alternately included and excluded in the only home one has known, while also feeling attachments to a place one may never have experienced and may or may not be welcome even to visit."
[1][4][9] From 2019 to 2021, Malek was an associate research scholar at Princeton University’s Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies.