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Education

• PhD, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3, France
• MA, Lancaster University, U.K.
• BA, Baha’i Institute for Higher Education, Iran

Research

Saghar Sadeghian, Ph.D., works on the history of the Modern Middle East. She is particularly interested in two topics: First, the history of race, religion, and ethnicity in the Middle East, specifically in the 19th-20th centuries, Iran. In her teaching and research, she looks at the position of minority groups in diversity, citizenship/non-citizenship, social movements, and democratic electoral bodies such as parliaments. Sadeghian is preparing her manuscript titled Iranian Non-Muslim Communities: Navigation and Negotiation of Space during the Constitutional Revolution for publication. Sadeghian’s second project is on environmental history, especially the history of the Caspian Littoral forests. She studies the role of forests in the culture, economy, and politics of Iranian society. 

Saghar Sadeghian also serves as the associate director of Yale Iranian History Internet Archives (YIHA). Currently, she is transcribing, annotating, and digitizing the .

Courses

• IDS 101 - Persian Folktales and Fairytales 
• HIST 131W - Middle East and the West
• HIST 171 - History of Modern Middle East
• HIST 237 - History of Modern Iran
• HIST  299 - Race, Religion, and Ethnicity in the Modern Middle East
• HIST 299 – Cinema in the Middle East
• HIST 379 - A Historical Approach to Gender Trouble in the Middle East 
• HIST 399 - Oil Empires

Selected Publications

Sadeghian, Saghar. “Caspian Forests as Political Setting: A Socio-Environmental Study of the Babi Resistance at the Fort of Sheykh Tabarsi.” in The Caspian in the History of Early Modern and Modern Eurasia, edited by Abbas Amanat, Kevin Gledhill, Kayhan Nejad. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2024. 

Sadeghian, Saghar“: Ravand-e Baha’i Setizi dar Iran as Sal-e 1357 Shamsi ta Konun (Othering the Baha’is in Their Homeland: Reviewing Baha’i Persecution in Iran (1979-Present).” Journal of Freedom of Thought, no. 14 (2023): 13-40.

Sadeghian, Saghar. of Iran's Experiment with Parliamentary Governance: The Second Majles, 1909-1911, by Mangol Bayat. International Journal of Asian Studies 18, no.2 (2021): 1-4.

Sadeghian, Saghar. International Journal of Persian Literature 4, no.1 (2019): 37-67.

Sadeghian, Saghar. Iran and the Caucasus 21, no.1 (2017): 55-72.

Sadeghian, Saghar. Iranian Studies 49, no. 6 (2016): 973–996.

Sadeghian, Saghar. Journal of Persianate Studies 9, no. 1 (2016): 107-132.

Sadeghian, Saghar. of Minorities in Iran: Nationalism and Ethnicity after Khomeini, by Rasmus Christian Elling. International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no.1 (2016): 183- 185.

Sadeghian, Saghar. Aasoo (2015).

Fellowships and Awards

• Faculty Council Achievement Recognition Award for Service, ÐÓÊ®°Ëвè·ÖÏí, 2019-2020
• Henry Rice Lecturer Fellowship, The MacMillan Center, Yale University, 2015-2016
• Postdoctoral Fellowship, Taslimi Foundation & Yale University, 2014-2015
• Scholars Rescue Fund, Institute of International Education, 2010- 2012

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