Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Saber Khani and Sara Moorman.2025. “Beyond the Classroom: How High School Extracurricular Activities Shape Cognitive Health in Later Life.” The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. (link)

Sara Moorman and Saber Khani. 2024. “High School Curriculum and Cognitive Function in the Eighth Decade of Life.” Alzheimer Disease & Associated Disorders 38(3):235-240. (link)

Saber Khani and Mohammad Ali Kadivar. 2023. “Sanctuaries or Battlegrounds? State Penetration in Places of Worship, University Campuses, and State Bureaucracy for Pro-Government Mobilization: Evidence from Iran (2015–2019).” Comparative Political Studies 57(10):1668-1702. (link)

Manuscripts Under Review

Saber Khani. “Drilling and Dissent: Oil, Corruption, and Contention—Evidence From a Multi-Level Cross-National Analysis, 2005–2019.” Under review at American Journal of Sociology.

Saber Khani and Mohammad Ali Kadivar. “Universities and Pro-government Mobilization in Autocratic Regimes.” Under review at American Journal of Sociology.

Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Saber Khani, Danial Vahabli, Vahid Abedini, and Samira Barzin. “The Contingency of Structures: Triggers and the Social Geography of Revolutionary Episodes in Iran 2018–2022.” Under review at American Sociological Review.

Jalal Ferati*, Saber Khani, and Akash Chopra*. “From Presence to Prominence: Institutional Pathways and Women’s Appointments to Cabinets Across Regimes.” Under review at Comparative Political Studies.

Eric Vogelsang, Sara Moorman, Alan Mijares, Zackary Zanotelli, Reza Tayari Ashtiani, and Saber Khani. “Older Adult Social Participation and Cognition: Illustrating Survey and Measurement Heterogeneity Across Studies.” Under review at Research on Aging.

*graduate student co-authors

Working Papers

Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Saber Khani. “Wartime Losses and Political Gains: State-Led Mobilization Through War Memorials in Iran.” Manuscript ready for submission.

Media Coverage

“Labor Organizing on the Rise Among Iranian Oil Workers,” with Mohammad Ali Kadivar, Peyman Jafari, and Mehdi Hoseini, Middle East Report Online, October 25, 2021. (link)

“Iran’s Protests Are Not Just About Gas Prices,” with Mohammad Ali Kadivar and Abolfazl Sotoudeh, Foreign Affairs, December 4, 2019. (link)