Beeta Baghoolizadeh, a PhD candidate in our department! Beeta has accepted a position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies at Bucknell University.
Beeta’s dissertation is titled Seeing Race and Erasing Slavery: Media and the Construction of Blackness in Iran, 1840-1960. Her dissertation committee is: Prof. Eve Troutt Powell (supervisor); Prof. Kathleen Brown; and Prof. Jamal Elias (Religious Studies).