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Nazli Akhtari is an Assistant Professor at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Communication Arts. Her research broadly engages with critical historiography, minoritarian archives, context, diaspora, and empire. She is currently working on a book manuscript that focuses on archival memory and image-making practices within the global Iranian diaspora. This project is supported by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant (2023-2025) and examines the institutional inclusion of diasporic minoritarian artistic practices in the context of settler colonialism in Turtle Island. In 2024, she received the Yasuo Sakakibara Prize for a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association. Previously, she has been awarded several honors, including a curatorial residency at the Banff International Curatorial Institute (2024) and a Research Fellowship from the American Society for Theatre Research (2021). Her scholarly contributions to Canadian theatre and performance studies have been recognized with an honorary mention for the Richard Plant Award in 2022.
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