Arlene Dallalfar

Associate Professor, Division of Interdisciplinary Inquiry

Ph.D. and M.A., University of California, Los Angeles; B.A., Tufts University

(617) 349-8925
adallalf@lesley.edu

Arlene Dallalfar, faculty in both the Intercultural Relations Program and in Lesley College, has been teaching courses in women's studies and family studies at Lesley since 1995. Her areas of specialization are gender, immigration and diaspora, women and work, and feminist theory from a cross-cultural perspective. Dallalfar earned her Ph.D. in sociology at the University of California in Los Angeles. The paradigms in sociology discourse surrounding gender roles and the family, inequality in the capitalist world economy, and immigration studies have been Dallalfar's areas of specialization. She is also a documentary filmmaker, addressing issues of ethnography.