Research and Publications

The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, 2024), unearths an intentionally hidden history of enslavement and race in Iran. Drawing on an interdisciplinary methodological approach to analyze textual, visual, and spatial sources, The Color Black pulls this long-ignored history into focus to trace the end of slavery and its many afterlives in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

"Seeing Black America in Iran," forthcoming with American Historical Review.

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“The Myths of Haji Firuz: the Racist Contours of the Iranian Minstrel,” Lateral, Journal of the Cultural Studies Association.

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  ترجمه به زبان فارسی :‌ "افسانه های حاجی فیروز: نمودهای نژادپرستانه ی تخت حوضی ایرانی"، لترال، ژورنال موسسه‌ی فرهنگ شناسی 
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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 (CSSAAME). ​

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Episode 3 on the Story of Iran ​podcast:
​"Introduction to the Art of Black Africa" ​

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"Introduction to the Art of Black Africa" poster, photographed by Iylana Nassiri for the Ajam Digital Archive.

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As the Resident Historian for the Collective for Black Iranians, I work with talented artists to illustrate historical research on Black life in Iran. 

​MERIP interview with Priscillia Kounkou Hoveyda:
​"Writing Ourselves into Existence with the Collective for Black Iranians" 

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