People

Postdoctoral Fellows

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  Maryam Athari

  Art History

  Northwestern Universtiy

  Project: Nodes of Connectivity: Jahani and Iranian Modernism’s Worldly Belonging

  Maryam Athari is a historian of twentieth-century global art, specializing in Middle Eastern and Iranian art. She earned her Ph.D. in Art History from Northwestern University, along with certificates in Middle... (more)

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  Usmon Boron

  Religious Studies

  University of Toronto

  Project: Toward an Ethics of Friendship: Tablighi Jamaat in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

  Usmon’s research and teaching broadly focus on entanglements between Islam and secular modernity. He is currently working on a book manuscript, In the Shadow of Tradition: Soviet Secularism and Islamic Revival in... (more)

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  Lama Elsharif

  History

  Purdue University, 2024

  Project: Small Wars of Scarcity: North African Corsairs in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries

  Lama Elsharif is a historian of the early modern and modern Middle East and North Africa. She earned her Ph.D. in History from Purdue University. Her research focuses on the intersections of environmental, economic,... (more)

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  Charlotte Kiechel

  History

  Yale University, 2022

  Project: Anticolonial Comparisons: The Politics of Decolonization and Holocaust Memory

  Charlotte Kiechel is a historian of decolonization and European political thought. Her research interests include post-1945 political movements, international law, human rights, and Holocaust memory. She has... (more)

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  Paniz Musawi Natanzi

  Gender Studies, Political Studies

  School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

  Project: The War Mode of Production: Masculinities, Artistic Labor and Race in Afghanistan

  Paniz Musawi Natanzi is an interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and anti-colonial theory, visual culture, global politics, and war. Much of her empirical and theoretical work... (more)