Narges Bajoghli is a PhD candidate in socio-cultural Anthropology at New York University and a documentary filmmaker in NYU's Culture and Media Program. Narges' research focuses on pro-regime cultural producers in Iran. Her dissertation is entitled: "Paramilitary Media: Revolution, War, and the Making of the Islamic Republic of Iran," and is supported by dissertation research grants from the Social Science Research Council, The Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Institute of Iranian Studies, NYU's Torch Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation (awarded/declined).

Narges received a M.A. and MPhil in Anthropology at New York University, a M.A. from the University of Chicago in the Social Sciences, focusing on Anthropology, and her B.A. from Wellesley College in International Relations and Middle Eastern Studies. As the recipient of the Susan Knafel Fellowship, Narges spent three semesters researching at the University of Tehran's Faculty of Law and Political Science, and developing projects focused on the victims of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War.

She is the director of The Skin That Burns, a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in Iran, distributed by Film Media Group. The film has screened in The Hague, Hiroshima, Jaipur, Tehran, and in the U.S. (New York, New Orleans, New Jersey, Chicago, and Irvine), at festivals and university campuses.

Paramilitary; Basij; Revolutionary Guard; media; political ethnography

PhD Candidate, NYU