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Shima Houshyar
Graduate Center, CUNY
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Development
Energy Studies
Environment
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Nationalism
State Formation
Technology
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Languages
Persian (native)
French (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2015 | Near Eastern Studies | New York University
BA | 2011 | Political Science & French | University of Washington
Abstracts
The Afterlives of Abadan: Spatial and Temporal Disjunctures in an Iranian Oil City Iran’s Past Energy Futures: Infrastructure, Temporality, and National Modernity in Southwest Iran Sediments of Power: Creating and Contesting Iran’s Natural Resource Frontiers in Twentieth Century Khuzestan Nature, Infrastructure, and the Political Geography of Twentieth-Century Iran