Roksana Bahramitash is currently based in Montreal at Concordia University where she teaches courses on gender and development at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute Concordia Women Studies Program. Bahramitash was awarded her PhD from McGill University, Montreal, in 2001. She is currently researching her second post-doctoral project, funded by the Social Science and Human Research Council of Canada, (SSHRC), regarding Globalization, Islamization and Women's Employment.