Beeta Baghoolizadeh
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Beeta Baghoolizadeh (Ph.D., History, University of Pennsylvania) is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. Her book, The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press) examines race, gender, historiography, 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, the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press, and is finalist for the 2025 Outstanding First Book Prize awarded by the Association of the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Her scholarship appears or is forthcoming in the American Historical Review (AHR), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, Modernism/modernity, and Public Culture. She is currently writing her second book on the questions of the supernatural and limits of history and humanity in the Persianate world.
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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 Recipient of the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press Finalist for the 2025 Outstanding First Book Prize awarded by the Association of the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) |
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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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