Current Projects and Publications
Cohoon, Melinda. “Digital Iran: Omeka Classic and Video Gaming on Twitch.TV.” IDEAH Vol. 2 (forthcoming June 2021).
Cohoon, Melinda (lead PI) and Shakerifard, Solmaz (co-PI). Digital Iran: Anticolonial and Imperial Narratives in Video Games. Latest update September 21, 2020, http://digitaliranproject.com/.
Cohoon, Melinda. “The Digital Borderlands: Glocalizing Iranian Video Games.” Omeka Classic. Latest update June 1, 2020. http://iranianvideogames.com/cms/.
Past Projects and Publications
Cohoon, Melinda. Book Review: “Paulo Lemos Horta’s Marvellous Thieves: Secret Author’s of the Arabian Nights.” Review of Middle East Studies, vol. 53(2), December 2019. DOI: 10.1017/rms.2019.47.
Cohoon, Melinda. “The Imperial Frontier: Tribal Dynamics and Oil in Qajar Persia 1901-1910.” Dissertations and Theses: International Studies – Middle East, June 2017. https://digital.lib.washington.edu/researchworks/handle/1773/39904.
Cohoon, Melinda. “The British-American Imperial Agenda in Iraq: The Oil and Railway line from Kirkuk to Haifa, 1920-1932.” PSU McNair Scholars Online Journal, Vol. 9, 2015. DOI: 10.15760/mcnair.2015.30.
Cohoon, Melinda. “Palestinian Women of the Intifada: The Women’s Committees, 1987-1988.” University Honors Theses, 2014. Paper 88. DOI: 10.15760/honors.78.
Presentations
Cohoon, Melinda. “The Affective Entanglement: Iranian Women Gamers Online.” Middle East Studies Association Conference, Virtual Meeting. October 6th, 2020.
Cohoon, Melinda. “Reading and Playing Right to Left: Preserving Japanese Comics and Iranian Video Games | Part 1: Iranian Video Games: Metadata Practices and the Omeka Classic Platform.” The Right to Left Virtual Workshop. Uvic, Victoria, BC, CA. June 7, 2020.
Cohoon, Melinda. “The Digital Borderlands: Glocalizing Iranian Video Games.” Digital Humanities Summer Institute Virtual Conference. Uvic, Victoria, BC, CA. June 2, 2020.
Cohoon, Melinda (workshop lead), Elezovic, Arna., and Apa Pomeshikov, Ayda. “Introduction to Interdisciplinary Ethnographies: Defining Ethnography in Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies,” Interdisciplinary Ethnographies Workshop Series sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities. December 2, 2019.
Cohoon, Melinda: “Reimagining History through Digital Cultural Artifacts: A Teaching Method,” NMES Capstone sponsored by the Walter M. Chapin Simpson Center, The University of Washington, May 4, 2018.
Cohoon, Melinda: “The Imperial Frontier: Tribal Dynamics and Oil in Qajar Persia, 1901-1910,” Graduate Student Conference in Middle East Studies, The University of Washington, May 19, 2017.
Cohoon, Melinda: “The British-American Agenda in Iraq, 1920-1932,” The Ronald E. McNair Undergraduate Symposium, Portland State University, August 13, 2014.
Cohoon, Melinda: “Palestinian Women of the Intifada: The Women’s Committees, 1987-1988,” Honors Symposium, Portland State University, May 19, 2014.
Cohoon, Melinda: “The Imperial Agenda and Oil Concessions in Iraq, 1920-1932,” Middle East Conference, Portland State University, May 23, 2014.
Cohoon, Melinda: “Oil Concession and the Iraqi Railway, 1920-1929,” Undergraduate Symposium. The University of Washington, May 16, 2014.