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Negar Mottahedeh

Professor of Literature
Literature
Box 90670, Durham, NC 27708-0670
125C Friedl Building (E. Campus), Buchanan and Trinity, Durham, NC 27708-0670

Awards & Honors


Middle East Book Award for #iranelection

International Washington Post · 2015

Partnership in a Global Age Grant for “Art of Democratic Revolution”

National Mellon Foundation · 2013

Humanities Writ Large Grant for “Muslim Publics”

National Mellon Foundation · 2013

Latifeh Yarshater Award for "Representing the Unrepresentable"

National Persian Heritage Foundation · August 2008

Persian Heritage Foundation Book Award for Displaced Allegories

University Persian Heritage Foundation, Columbia University · 2008

Faculty Fellow

University John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, Duke University · 2004 Knowledges and Their Institutions

Rockefeller Foundation Residency Program Fellowship

University Institute for Research on Women, Rutgers University · 2001 Gender, Race and Ethnicity: Articulating the Local and the Global

Best Dissertation of the Year Award

National The Foundation for Iranian Studies · 1998 Topic of Iranian Studies

MacArthur Pre-Dissertation Field Research Fellowship

University University of Minnesota · 1995

Harold Leonard Fellowship in Film Research

University University of Minnesota · 1995