Navid Fozi-Abivard (GRS '11)
Navid is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Bridgewater State University in Bridgewater, Massachusetts. He works on topics of minorities, migration, and pluralism in Iran and the Iranian diaspora. His research on ethnoreligious minorities in Iran has resulted in a book, Reclaiming the Faravahar: Zoroastrian Survival in Contemporary Tehran (Leiden University Press, 2014). His current project is based on his 2014-2017 field research among Iranian asylum seekers in Turkey, conducted as a fellow of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) at the Middle East Technical University of Ankara. The work is tentatively entitled, “Diaporic Counterpublics: Multiplicities, Challenges, and Trajectories of Iranian Asylum Seekers in Turkey.”