Ali Hashemian is a doctoral candidate in Gender Studies at Central European University in Vienna. He is the recipient of the German Academic Exchange Service Research Scholarship (DAAD) as well as the Austrian Marietta Blau Scholarship and a visiting researcher at the Department of Islamic Studies in the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research interests include masculinities studies, history of gender and sexuality in modern Iran, race and nationalism, and interwar German-Iranian relations. Ali has received an MA degree in Critical Gender Studies in 2021 from CEU and holds undergraduate degrees in English and American Studies (2019), and Dramatic Literature (2012).