Behnaz A Mirzai
Behnaz Mirzai is an historian of modern Iran, who teaches Middle Eastern history at Brock University. Her areas of specialization include comparative and cross-cultural studies, ethnicity, slavery, gender, as well as social, economic and religious interactions in the Middle East.
Her dissertation was entitled “Slavery, the Aboltition of the Slave Trade and Emancipation of Slaves in Iran 1829-1928”.
Books
Co-edited volume with Bonny Ibhawoh, Africa and Its Diasporas: Rethinking Struggles for Recognition and Empowerment, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, forthcoming 2018.
Bahnaz A. Mirzai. A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929. Austin: University of Texas Press. 2017, 324 pp.
Shortlisted for the 2018 Canadian Historical Association Wallace K. Ferguson Prize.
Behnaz A. Mirzai ed. “The Baluchi and Baluchistan.” Special issue,
The Journal of the Middle East and Africa, 4:2 (2013).
Co-edited with Ismael Musa Montana, and Paul Lovejoy, Slavery, Islam and Diaspora, Trenton NJ: Africa World Press, 2009.
Source: Brock University
