Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D.

Bio

Kelly J. Shannon, Ph.D. is a 2023-2024 W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. She is also an Associate Professor of History at Florida Atlantic University (FAU), where she was previously the Executive Director of FAU’s Center for Peace, Justice, and Human Rights and the Chastain-Johnston Middle Eastern Studies Distinguished Professor in Peace Studies. Shannon specializes in the history of U.S. foreign relations, with particular attention to the 20th century. Her research focuses on U.S. relations with the Islamic world, U.S. relations with Iran, Muslim women’s human rights, transnational history, human rights, and U.S. foreign policy. Her first book, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Muslim Women’s Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018), explores the integration of American concerns for women’s human rights into U.S. policy towards the Islamic world since the Iranian Revolution. Her other publications include book chapters and journal articles on the international movement to end female genital mutilation (FGM), U.S. encounters with Saudi gender relations during the first Gulf War, and U.S. relations with Iran. She is currently working on a book entitled The Ties That Bind: U.S.-Iran Relations, 1905-1953, which is under contract with Columbia University Press.