Beeta Baghoolizadeh
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Beeta Baghoolizadeh (PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. She is the author of The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, 2024), which examines race, gender, media, and visuality in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran. The Color Black has received the Wesley-Logan Book Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association (AHA), the Paul E. Lovejoy Book Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery, and the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press. Her scholarship appears in the American Historical Review (AHR), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. She is currently writing her second book on the intersections of race, media, and the supernatural. |
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The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in IranWinner of the Wesley-Logan Book Prize from the American Historical Association (AHA)
Winner of the 2024 Paul E. Lovejoy Book Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery Winner of the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press |
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"Seeing Black America in Iran,” American Historical Review 128, no. 4 (2023): 1618-1642.
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From Religious Eulogy to War Anthem: Examining Kurdizadeh’s ‘Layla Bigufta,’ and Blackness in late twentieth-century Iran,” Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 41, no. 3 (2021): 441-454.
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“The Myths of Haji Firuz: the Racist Contours of the Iranian Minstrel,” Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Issue 10.1 (Spring 2021). |
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Diaspora Letters multimedia visual project (2018). Represented by 12Gates art gallery in Philadelphia.
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