Saeed Saffar Heidari
Graduate Student
Sociology
Pronouns: He/Him/His
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About
Specialty Areas:
Postcolonial Sociology, Neoliberalism in the Middle East, Sociology of Knowledge, Sociology of Islam, Global and Transnational Sociology, Social Movements
Research interests:
Saeed is a Sociology PhD student at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His research interest addresses the intersections of neoliberal culture(s), postcolonial production of knowledge, the neoliberal marketization of Islam, and the global and diasporic social movements. Before holding an M.A in sociology from UIC, Saeed studied sociology at the University of Tehran. His thesis was primarily concerned with the social construction of nostalgia in the post-revolutionary Iran, exploring the variegated yet incongruous proliferation of collective memories in post-1979 Iran. He is involved in studying the contemporary neoliberal political culture and its ensuing social mobilizations, mutations, and movements, according to which, historical differences render the possibility and facilitate the marketization of all social and cultural spaces and identities, besides its aiding the consolidation of global capitalism.
M.A Title: “Social Construction of Nostalgia in Post-revolutionary Iran”, passed with distinction.
Education
B.A. English Literature, University of Mazandaran, Iran,
M.A. Sociology, University of Tehran, Iran,
M.A. Sociology, University of Illinois at Chicago,