420 Hamilton Hall
The Columbia University Department of History and the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race present a Book Talk and Q&A on, “The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran” with Beeta Baghoolizadeh. She is a historian and Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Her first book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) examines questions concerning race, gender, historiography, and visuality through the lens of enslavement and abolition in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Color Black has won the Scholars of Color First Book Award at Duke University Press.Baghoolizadeh’s work has been published in the American Historical Review (AHR), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Prior to joining Princeton, Beeta was an Assistant Professor of History and Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), and she has also been a Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center and a Regional Faculty Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wolf Humanities Center.
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 12-2pm
420 Hamilton Hall, CSER Seminar Room
Refreshments will be provided!
