Sarah Eskandari

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Ph.D. candidate

Education

M.A (History), University of Pennsylvania 

 

 

Research Interests

The dynamics of religious mobility, pandemics, and the frontier challenges in Modern Iran

Bargaining with patriarchy and creation of the multi-dimensional agency in modern Iran

Gender and pilgrimage in Iran-Ottoman borderlands 

 

 

 

Selected Publications

2024, "Tohfeye Ziyarat (Souvenir of Pilgrimage): Religious Mobility and Public Health in Late Qajar Iran, c. 1890–1904" Iranian Studies,1-23.

2023, “Internal Colonialism in Iran: Gender and Resistance Against the Islamic Regime,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 55, 4 (2023)pp. 739-743.

2022, Review of Lale Can, Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Hajj at the End of Empire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020), Contemporary Islam 16, 1: 107–109.

2022, Review of Marjo Buitelaar, Manja Stephan-Emmrich, and Viola Thimm, eds., Muslim Women’s Pilgrimage to Mecca and Beyond: Reconfiguring Gender, Religion, and Mobility (London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021), Contemporary Islam 16, 1: 111–113.