Candace Mixon in Golestan Palace, Tehran, Iran, 2014
Candace Mixon defended her dissertation at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in Religious Studie. Her dissertaton, “Mother of Her Father: Devotion to Fatima al-Zahra in Contemporary Iran,” discusses material artifacts produced in Mashhad, Iran related to the contemporary attention to Fatima. Candace travelled to Iran for research in 2014 and 2016.
She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in Religious Studies at Macalester College (Saint Paul, Minnesota).