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Naghmeh Sohrabi
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the director for research and the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University. Her book, Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe, was published in 2012 by Oxford University Press. She is the 2014 recipient of a Mellon New Directions Fellowship and is currently researching a book on the experience of the 1979 revolution in Iran. Sohrabi was a postdoctoral fellow at the Crown Center from 2005-2007. She holds a PhD in history and Middle East studies from Harvard University, and her dissertation received an honorable mention from the Foundation for Iranian Studies.