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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
Office hours By appointment negar@duke.edu  

Awards & Honors


Middle East Book Award for #iranelection

International Washington Post · 2015

Humanities Writ Large Grant for “Muslim Publics”

National Mellon Foundation · 2013

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

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

In the News


Published October 20, 2022
Listening to Women in Revolutionary Iran
Published October 6, 2022
How Baraye became the unofficial anthem of the protests in Iran.
Published October 5, 2022
How a viral song became the unofficial anthem of Iran’s protests.
Published September 29, 2022
Protests Grow More Frequent As Young Iranians Demand More Freedoms, Experts Say
Published March 2, 2021
12 Duke-Authored Books on Women's History
Published September 13, 2017
Remembering the Reel Evil Film Festival at Duke
Published July 14, 2016
Negar Mottahedeh: Using 'the selfie' to protest
Published June 6, 2016
#iranelection: An interview with Negar Mottahedeh on protest, play and the 2009 Green Movement
Published February 9, 2016
Panel Examines Activism and ‘Outrage Fatigue’ on Social Media
Published November 17, 2015
The Role of Social Media During the Paris Crisis
Published March 10, 2015
Duke Experts Screen Jon Stewart’s Iran Movie Rosewater March 17
Published May 22, 2014
Happy in Tehran: No Youth Revolution, No Movement on Human Rights in Iran