{"id":1292,"date":"2025-08-20T16:21:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/?p=1292"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:21:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T23:21:05","slug":"hajar-yazdiha-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/08\/hajar-yazdiha-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Hajar Yazdiha"},"content":{"rendered":"  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--article-intro \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--article-intro\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  \n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h2>Hajar Yazdiha<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-427 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/05\/yazdiha-hajar-stack-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Hajar Yazdiha\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/05\/yazdiha-hajar-stack-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/05\/yazdiha-hajar-stack-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/182\/2023\/05\/yazdiha-hajar-stack.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/hajar-yazdiha\/\"><strong>Hajar Yazdiha<\/strong><\/a>, associate professor of sociology, has been elected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asanet.org\/about\/governance-and-leadership\/election\/\">councils of the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section and the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association<\/a>. Yazdiha\u2019s research on social movements, race and ethnicity, immigration and cultural politics aligns closely with both sections&#8217; focus on moral community and cultural life. She will help shape agendas and programming in these roles while supporting fellow scholars&#8217; research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/hajar-yazdiha\/\"><strong>Hajar Yazdiha<\/strong><\/a>, associate professor of sociology, has been elected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.asanet.org\/about\/governance-and-leadership\/election\/\">councils of the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section and the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association<\/a>. Yazdiha&#8217;s research on social movements, race and ethnicity, immigration and cultural politics aligns closely with both sections&#8217; focus on moral community and cultural life. She will help shape agendas and programming in these roles while supporting fellow scholars&#8217; research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faculty-recogntion","category-social-sciences"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hajar Yazdiha<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/news-briefs\/faculty-recogntion\/2025\/08\/hajar-yazdiha-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hajar Yazdiha - USC Dornsife News Briefs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hajar Yazdiha, associate professor of sociology, has been elected to the councils of the Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section and the Sociology of Culture Section of the American Sociological Association. 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