Academic Profile
Sara Zanotta is a historian of Iranian mobility and migration in the 19th and 20th centuries. She is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of History of the University of Turin. Her current research focuses on the mobility, encounters and mixing between Iranians and the Red Sea peoples during the 19th and 20th centuries.
She is also working on her first monograph "Long-Distance Constitutionalists: Mobility, Migration, and the Iranian Constitutional Movement (1850s-1910s)". The book reworks her PhD thesis which explored the long-distance activism and cooperation of Iranian communities abroad in the Iranian constitutional movement and won the 2026 Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award.
She is also working on her first monograph "Long-Distance Constitutionalists: Mobility, Migration, and the Iranian Constitutional Movement (1850s-1910s)". The book reworks her PhD thesis which explored the long-distance activism and cooperation of Iranian communities abroad in the Iranian constitutional movement and won the 2026 Mehrdad Mashayekhi Dissertation Award.
Sample Publications
“Losing Confidence: Iranian Revolutionaries and Italy from the Lesser Despotism to the Italo-Ottoman War (1908-1911)”, in The International History Review, Latest articles, 1-18, https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.2025.2527793
Scholarly Interests
Iranian history; Qajar history; Constitutional Revolution; Iranian mobility and migration; Iranians in Egypt
Current Position
Post-doc research fellow,
Università degli Studi di Torino