Navid Fozi-Abivard
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Dr. Navid Fozi-Abivard
Matriculated September 2004; defended dissertation January 18, 2011
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Navid Fozi-Abivard’s research aims to explicate mechanisms behind the Zoroastrian tradition’s survival over a millennium of Iran’s Islamicization. Focusing on religious rituals, he contemplated the ways in which images of the past are understood, established as social reality, and used by different social actors in contemporary Iran. This study merges historicity with social theories concerning distribution of knowledge. In his upcoming dissertation, “An Alternative Religious Space in Shi’a Iran: Imaginaries of Iranian Zoroastrians in Contemporary Tehran,” Navid argues that Zoroastrian tradition’s resilience is due to configuration of religious knowledge that provides members with an enduring identification despite unprecedented challenges.
Dr. Fozi-Abivard has been appointed a post-doc in the Middle Eastern Institute of the National University of Singapore.
Publications
- “The Hallowed Summoning of Tradition: Body Techniques in Construction of the Sacred Tanbur of Western Iran,” Anthropological Quarterly 80(1): 173-205, Winter 2007.
- Book Review, The Unknown Baptized: Anthropological Study of Religious Behavior Prevailing Among Mandai Sabiin of Iran by Mehrdad Arabestani 2004 in Journal of Research Institute, I.C.H.T.O. 2(3): 117-120, Autumn 2004.
- “Immanuel Kant’s Notion of True Liberty in a Secular State.” ergo: UT-Dallas Journal of the Social Sciences Graduate Association. 2 (2): 37-48, Spring 2003.
Awards
- Visiting Research Fellow, Zentrum Moderner Orient (the Center of Modern Oriental Studies, Berlin)
- Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen Junior Visiting Fellowship
- GRAF
- Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant
- Muslim Studies Fellowship