Saghar Sadeghian

Saghar Sadeghian is an Associate Professor of History at Willamette University. She started her higher education in Iran at the clandestine Baha’i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) before earning a master’s in Historical Research from Lancaster University (U.K.) and a Ph.D. from Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3. Sadeghian has served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow of Iranian Studies and a Rice Faculty Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

Her research interests include environmental history, minority groups, women and gender studies. At Willamette, she teaches courses on the modern Middle East. Her first book, Iranian Non-Muslim Communities: Negotiating Social Space during the Constitutional Revolution (1891–1911), is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press. She has been awarded the Gerda Henkel Fellowship for the calendar year 2025 to work on her new book project, Green Gold: An Environmental History of the Caspian Forests (1800–Present).

Saghar Sadeghian also serves as the associate director of Yale Iranian History Internet Archives (YIHA). Currently, she is transcribing, annotating, and digitizing the Ghani Collection at Yale.