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dr. Younes Saramifar, Dr


Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Art and Culture, History, Antiquity

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Assistant Professor, Research Programmes - Social Sciences, Mobilities, Beliefs and Belonging: Confronting Global Inequalities and Insecurities (MOBB)

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I am an interdisciplinary scholar researching narratives of domination and political storytelling of religious populism. I play interdisciplinarity by practicing ethnography and yoyoing between humanities and social sciences to rediscover the familiar in unfamiliar ways. I approach my research through objects and bodies configured through history and collective memory. I follow these questions through approaches of Material Religion, Visual Studies, Intersectional Feminism, Critical Race Theory, and Speculative Realism. I begin with the mundane affairs of everyday life and end up in the weirdest and lesser-explored corners of existence. Please be aware of the madness before coming closer!

I have been educated and worked internationally. Undergraduates in Iran, postgraduate, and my first PhD (2016, passed without revision) in India. I was trained by the prominent subaltern feminist sociologist Sharmila Rege, as well as critical thinkers such as Professor Deepak Mehta. Then, I pursued a second PhD (2020, Cum Laude) in Cultural Anthropology in the Netherlands to demonstrate my worth to the "white academia." 

You can watch a short introduction to my work on violence here 

  1. I take part in the editorial team of American Ethnologist & the Journal of Politics, Religion, and Ideology 

 

Teaching

 I teach

  •  MA and ReMa Specialised Tutorial 
  • History & Ethnography
  • Personal is Political 
  • The Middle East in the Contemporary History
  • Current Debates in the Global History 
  • Global Migration History 

I am currently supervising these PhD candidates:

  • Nazar Abdulazeez on Kurdish-Syrian Asylum Seekers and Belonging in Iraqi Kurdistan
  • Nebil Kusmallah on Unbearable lightness of Agency: Exploring the Lives and Aspirations Unaccompanied Eritrean Refugee Minors in NL
  • Natalia Guzevataya on Decolonization and Politics of Time among Ukrainian Diaspora
  • Behzad Kedri, Kurdish Feminism and Women Life Freedom
  • Ola Plonska: Masculinities and Sexual Citizenship among Dutch Youth (NWO Grant)
  • Ziyuan Yang: Neglected areas? Untold Stories of Abstract Motifs: A Study of the Visuality and Materiality of Delftware Patterns (CSC-funded)
     
Prizes and Awards
  • Nomination for Teacher Talent Prize 2016-2017, FSW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Nomination for Teacher Talent Prize 2017-2018, FSW, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Peter Baehr Prize for Best Research proposal 2017
  • Vrije Universiteit Research Fellowship 
  •  Humboldt University fellowship
  • Vrije Universiteit, FSW, Best doctoral dissertation award
  • Niels Stensen University Fellowship @ Aarhus University 
Grants
  • Einstein Foundation Berlin, Reserach Grant 
  • Gerda Henkel Foundation, Research Grant

 

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dr. Younes Saramifar, Dr

Keywords

  • H Social Sciences, conflict ethnography, cultural anthropology, Embodiment theor...

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Uitgelichte prijzen

  • Niels Stensen Fellowship

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