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Sara Zanotta

MA in International Relations

Academic Profile

Sara Zanotta is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Asian History at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her research project investigates the transborder connections of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and constitution-building process, with a focus the role of Iranian communities abroad in connecting Iran with other ongoing constitutional developments across Asia. Previously, she has studied at the University of Milan, Sciences Po Lille and the Central European University and she is currently visiting PhD student at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the University of Bamberg. Furthermore, she is a teaching assistant for the course History and Politics of North Africa and the Middle East at the University of Milan and deputy chief of the editorial staff of the journal "Nuovi Autoritarismi e Democrazie".

Sample Publications

  • “Iraniani ‘oltre confine’: il ruolo degli iraniani a Istanbul nell’emergere del movimento costituzionale” (in English: “Iranians ‘beyond border’: the role of the Iranians in Istanbul in the emergence of the constitutional movement”), under review (proceedings of the conference Il confine: divergenze, relazioni, sconfinamenti e ibridazioni held 20-21 October 2022 at the University of Calabria).
  • “In support of a constitutional government: Women’s voices in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution”, in Afriche e Orienti, under review
  • “Oil, water, and the veil: A history of the recent Iranian waves of protests”, in G.M. Arrigo and J. Franceschini (eds.), Revolutionary Times. Mediterranean Perspectives, Aracne, Roma, forthcoming (2023)
  • Review of “Davoudi, Leonardo. Persian Petroleum. Oil, Empire and Revolution in Late Qajar Iran, I.B. Tauris, 2021, 240 pp.”, in Maydan. Rivista sui mondi arabi, semitici e islamici, Vol. 2, 2022.

Scholarly Interests

Iranian history; Qajar history; Constitutional Revolution and its transborder connections; Iranian communities outside Qajar Iran; Iranians in the Ottoman Empire

CV

Zanotta_CV_9993f1649c3cdea7c826b99333cde142.pdf

Current Position

PhD candidate in History, Università degli Studi di Pavia