Behnaz Mirzai

Graduate
HIST 5V30 The Iranian Revolutions
HIST 5V11 Women and gender in the Middle East

• Identity Transformations of African Communities in Iran, In Lawrence Potter, ed., The Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports and History, New York: Palgrave, forthcoming.
• Qajar Haram: Imagination or Reality, In Behnaz A. Mirzai, Ismael Musah Montana and Paul E. Lovejoy eds., Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2009. pp. 77-89.
• The Trade in Enslaved Africans in Nineteenth-Century Iran, In Kiran Kamal Prasad and Jean-Pierre Angenot, eds., TADIA – The African Diaspora in Asia: Explorations on a Less Known Fact, Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana, 2008,pp. 220-235.
• The 1848 Abolitionist Farmān: A Step Towards Ending the Slave Trade in Iran,” in Gwyn Campbell ed., Abolition and its Aftermath in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 94–102.

• Emancipation and its Legacy in Iran: An Overview. Cultural Interactions Created by the Slave Trade in the Arab-Muslim World. Paris: UNESCO, 2008.
  http://portal.unesco.org/culture/fr/files/38502/124809720756.Emancipation_LegacyIran.pdf/6.Emancipation%2BLegacyIran.pdf 
• Le commerce des esclaves africains dans l’Iran du XIXème siècle, Les Cahiers des Anneaux de la Mémoire, 9, 2006, 29–40.
• The Slave Trade and the African Diaspora in Iran. ZIFF journal, 2, 2005, pp. 30–4.
• African Presence in Iran: Identity and its Reconstruction, Société française d’Histoire d’Outre-mer,  no. 336-337, 2002, pp. 229-246.

• Documentary film “Afro-Iranian Lives,” Production, script, direction, and presentation, 2008, 45 minutes. http://www.afroiranianlives.com/index.htm
• Photography Exhibition, “Eyes in the Desert”. 
• Workshop on Baluchi Identity and Culture
• Documentary film "The African-Baluchi Trance Dance," Production, 
  narration, script and direction, 2012, 27 minutes. 
  http://www.afroiranianlives.com/index.htm

• SSHRC Connection Grants "Baluchi identity and culture", 2012
• Brock SSHRC Institutional Grants (BSIG), 2011 
• Brock Humanities Research Institute (HRI), 2011
• SSHRC Standard Research Grants “Iranian Borderland: Baluchi Identity and Culture”, 2010-2013
• Brock University Advancement Fund (BUAF), 2008
• Zanzibar International Film Festival, 2007
• Brock SSHRC Institutional Grant (BSIG), 2007
• Brock Humanities Research Institute (HRI), 2007
• The Stevenson Scholar in African Studies, York University, 1999-2000

• Co-ordinator and member of the preparatory Committee for the Slave Route project, UNESCO
• Associated Researcher, The MCRI Slavery, Memory and Citizenship project, York University, http://harriet.tubman1.yorku.ca/slaverymemorycitizenship/home.

LANGUAGES

Arabic, Turkish (Azari, Osmanli), Persian, English, French