Occupation
Visiting Assistant/Associate Professor
ABOUT
Hadi Gharabaghi is a visiting assistant professor at Fairfield University. His publications include a case study of early Cold War Iran–U.S. documentary diplomacy (2021), a co-edited special issue journal on the USIA motion picture archives (2022), and chapters in edited volumes on the topics of USIA film and television genealogy in Arab world (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and a forthcoming co-authored piece on USIA documentary (Oxford UP, 2025). Forthcoming co-edited volumes include Governing Genealogies of International Film Education (Temple UP, 2025) and Streaming Video in the Global South (Bloomsbury, 2025).
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Foreign Relations
Globalization
Historiography
Human Rights
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modernization
Persian
Pop Culture
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Arab States
Iran
North America
Specialties
Documentary Diplomacy,
Global Cinema,
Cinema And Revolutions,
Governmentality,
Streaming Cinema & Television
The United States Information Agency
Iranian Film And Media
Languages
Persian (native)
English (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2018
| Cinema Studies
| New York University
MA
| 2009
| Cinema Studies
| New York University
BA
| 2006
| Visual Arts-Art History & Theory
| University of Maryland Baltimore County
Abstracts
The Syracuse Documentary Mission in Iran (1950-1959) & the Archive Today
“Television on the Tigris”: A Cold War genealogy of the first Television Station in Iraq
