Doctoral Student Fellow
Doctoral Student, Department of Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts & Science
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, 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 the National Science Foundation (awarded/declined), and the a Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship at NYU. She is the director of The Skin That Burns, a documentary film about survivors of chemical warfare in Iran, distributed by Film Media Group. Narges writes on Iran for The Guardian, Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP), The Huffington Post, LobeLog, and IranWire. She has also appeared as a guest commentator on Iranian politics on DemocracyNow!, NPR, BBC WorldService, BBC Persian, and HuffPost Live.