Scholars in the Press
We Refugees Archive Interviews Consortium Scholars, Highlights Experiences in New York City
4 Consortium-hosted scholars were interviewed in a series created by We Refugees Archives designed to highlight refugee experiences in New York City. We Refugees Archives is a digital archive on refugeedom, past and present, with a focus on “individual micro-histories and the city as a…Continue reading→
Iran Has Become a Prison
What I learned about the challenge of resisting a regime that locks up thousands of political prisoners By Kian Tajbakhsh, originally published in The Atlantic November 1, 2022 “Amid the nationwide protests that have rocked Iran since the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini, who…Continue reading→
Sadr Wins Award for Best Book in Social Sciences at Annual Conference
Omar Sadr’s latest book, “Negotiating Cultural Diversity in Afghanistan,” was awarded the Best Book in Social Sciences Award from the Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS) at its annual conference, at Indiana University on October 22th. The book explores the effect of cultural diversity on the construction of…Continue reading→
Book Launch and Panel Discussion with Consortium Scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, at Columbia University
Consortium Scholar, Kian Tajbakhsh, will launch his new book, “Creating Local Democracy in Iran: State Building and the Politics of Decentralization” with a panel discussion on October 27th from 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, hosted by Columbia University’s Center for Global Thought. Rooted in Tajbakhsh’s…Continue reading→
Webinar: Global Uprisings: Power, Violence, & the Struggle for Bodily Autonomy in Iran
Consortium Scholar Naima Mohammadi will take part in a panel discussion about the ongoing protests in Iran on Wednesday, October 19th from 12:30-2:00 pm ET. The event is hosted by the University of Pittsburgh’s Global Studies Center and Department of Sociology and is available online…Continue reading→
Consortium Scholar’s article on academic fraud amongst world leaders is translated, just in time for the G20 Summit
October 14, 2022, originally published in 2019 by The Conversation. Consortium Scholar Ararat Osipian’s 2019 article, “Putin’s plagiarism, fake Ukrainian degrees and other tales of world leaders accused of academic fraud”, originally published in English, was recently translated into Indonesian and republished on the The…Continue reading→
Iran’s First Feminist Uprising: Woman! Life! Freedom!
By Kian Tajbakhsh, originally published in Public Seminar September 28, 2022 A protester holds a portrait of Mahsa Amini during a demonstration in support of Amini, a young Iranian woman who died after being arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic’s morality police, on Istiklal…Continue reading→
Shafiqa Khpalwak’s poetry is published in ADI Magazine
Spring 2022 “Last night in my dreams, I went home. I walked into our garden, cried, and said, “I was dying to smell the flowers.” Then I went to my room and wrote a poem. In the morning, I woke up on the fifth floor…Continue reading→
The Future of Academia in Ukraine: Consortium Scholar, Ararat Osipian, featured in Times Higher Education
September 12, 2022 Osipian, whose research interests include corruption in higher education, writes about the effects of war on Ukraine’s universities and the path toward a more equitable and transparent academy in Ukraine. “Corruption continues not only in the war-torn eastern and southern regions but…Continue reading→
Consortium Scholar, Ararat Osipian featured in “Voices of Ukrainian Scholars” by the US-based Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES)
September 2022 “In the early morning of February 24, 2022, I woke up to three loud explosions that shook my windows and everything around. These were the shock waves of the missile explosions that hit Kramatorsk, the administrative center of the Donetsk region in eastern…Continue reading→