Doctoral Student Public Humanities Fellow
PhD Candidate, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Graduate School of Arts & Science
Project: Displaced Neighborhoods: Mapping Population Exchange between Yerevan, Baku, & New York
Rustin Zarkar is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies at NYU. His research focuses on regimes of mobility and cultural history in and around the Caspian Sea during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He is the co-founder and editor of the Ajam Media Collective, an online space dedicated to culture and politics in Iran, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and South Asia. His project utilizes digital mapping, oral histories, and 360 and conventional documentary footage to explore the housing exchange that occurred between Armenian and Azerbaijani refugees in Baku and Yerevan during the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict.