Beeta Baghoolizadeh

Beeta Baghoolizadeh (PhD, History, University of Pennsylvania) is an Associate Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. She is the author of The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, 2024), which examines race, gender, visuality, and memory in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran. The Color Black has received several awards, including the Wesley-Logan Book Prize in African Diaspora History from the American Historical Association (AHA), the Paul E. Lovejoy Book Prize from the Journal of Global Slavery, the Scholars of Color First Book Award from Duke University Press, and is finalist for the 2025 Outstanding Book Prize awarded by the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD). Her scholarship appears in the American Historical Review (AHR), Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East (CSSAAME), and Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. Prior to joining Columbia, she was an associate research scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University and an assistant professor in History and Critical Black Studies at Bucknell University. At the MEI, she is currently writing her second book on the historiography of the supernatural and questions of humanity.

Website: https://www.beetabaghoolizadeh.com