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Saghar Bozorgi
University of Texas at Austin
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
19th-21st Centuries
Historiography
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
Early Iranian Elections
Parliamentary Politics
Local History
Languages
Persian (native)
Turkish (intermediate)
Ottoman (elementary)
Arabic (advanced)
Education
MA | 2017 | Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies | New York University
MA | 2015 | Political Science | Central European University
BA | 2013 | Sociology | University of Tehran
Abstracts
Localization of National Politics: The Experience of Conducting Elections in Kashan, Iran (1909-10) Our Vote Matters if We Are Ra‘yats of Iran: Local Electoral Struggles and Efforts for Identity Formation in Kashan and Kermanshah (1909-1915) A’yan al-Shia: Writing a Modern Shi’i Identity Under Nationalism and Imperialism Medicalization without Doctors: The Popularization of Medical Discourse in Iran, 1941-1951 “Know Yourself”: Discourses on Health and Mental Health between 1940 and 1960 in Iran