Roksana Bahramitash is research director at the Chair of Islam, Pluralism and Globalization at Department of theology at University of Montreal. Her research interests are, Women’s Employment/unemployment, poverty and globalization, She received the  Eileen D. Ross award for her project on female poverty, globalization, Islamization and women’s employment. She has produced a documentary on Afghan women, “Beyond the Burqa.”

Her publications include: Liberation from Liberalization: Gender and Globalization in Southeast Asia, London:(2005); “Myths and Realities of the Impact of Political Islam on Women: Female Employment in Iran and Indonesia;” “Globalization, Islamization and Women’s Employment in Indonesia;” Gods, Guns, and Globalization: Religious Radicalism and International Political Economy.