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CMES and the CMES Middle East Forum are pleased to present
Ahmad Mohammadpour
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, Department of Anthropology, Sociology and Criminology, Troy University, and
Dilan Okcuoglu
M. Barzani Postdoctoral Fellow & Lecturer, Global Kurdish Studies, School of International Service, American University
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Ahmad Mohammadpour is a socio-anthropologist from Eastern Kurdistan, Iran. He received his PhD in sociology from Shiraz University, Iran. He has also a PhD in anthropology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he teaches courses on nationalism, and ethno-religious conflicts in the Contemporary Middle East. Mohammadpour research centres on the ethno-religious minorities and political economy of de-development in Iran, with a focus on Eastern Kurds. He has written eight monographs and (co)authored over 60 academic articles in English, Kurdish and Persian. Mohammadpour’s works on Kurdistan are widely considered models for ethnographic and grounded theory-based research in Iran.
Mohammadpour’s works have appeared in various international peer-reviewed journals such as Current Anthropology, The British Journal of Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Ethnicities, Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies and the International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, among others.
Dilan Okcuoglu is a postdoctoral fellow and professorial lecturer in School of International Service at the American University in Washington, DC. Before that, she was a visiting scholar at the Cornell University, M. Einaudi Center for International Studies. Also, affiliated with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity and Democracy (CRIDAQ) at the Université du Québec à Montréal in 2018-2019. She received her PhD and MA in Political Studies from Queen’s University in Canada where she was also affiliated with Center for the Study of Democracy and Diversity as well as the Laboratory for Ethnic Conflict Research. She also holds an MA in Political Science from Central European University and a BA in Economics from Boğaziçi University.
Dr. Okcuoglu has an interdisciplinary background in politics, economics and philosophy. Her teaching and research interests primarily lie in the politics of MENA, conflict and peace studies, comparative territorial and border politics, Kurdish politics, democratization, ethnic politics and nationalism as well as state-minority relations in conflict zones. She is currently working on her book proposal in addition to two scholarly publications.
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