Center for Humanities Research Summer Fellow Research Talk: PhD Candidate Sevil Suleymani (Sociology and Anthropology), "Nationalism and the Politics of Identity inclusion in Iran"

Tuesday, September 5, 2023 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM EDT
Horizon Hall 6325

Sevil Suleymani (her/hers) is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology with an emphasis on gender and globalization. Her research interests are nationalism, minorities in the Middle East and social movements, gender regimes in Middle Eastern communities, and feminist and queer movements in Azerbaijan, Turkey, and Iran. She is currently a GTA in the Communication department and working on her dissertation. 

Sevil's project is titled "Nationalism and the Politics of Identity Inclusion in Iran." This study analyzes the relationship between nationalism and historiography by discussing the concept of Aryanism as a race and the role of racialization processes in constructing the Iranian national identity. The Aryan race ideology had become fundamental for building the nation and determining which communities would be included in the country's national identity, which resulted in the adaptation of Persian identity as superior by forcing other groups and communities to assimilate and Persianize.

Please join us in person in Horizon Hall 6325 or on zoom for a presentation and discussion. Zoom link will be provided through CHR's newsletter which you can sign up for HERE.