Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Ph.D

Associate Professor
Department of History

Golbarg Rekabtalaei is a historian of modern Iran, with a broader focus on the modern Middle East and North Africa. Her research focuses on the formation of a cosmopolitan modernity in twentieth century Iran through social, cultural, and political exchanges between Iran and the world. She is interested in the relationships between cinematic image and space, modernity, cosmopolitanism, urbanisation, nationalism, and revolutions. She pays particular attention to the role of cinema, in concrete form and onscreen, in facilitating urban cosmopolitan imaginations and hybrid subjectivities. Her book, Iranian Cosmopolitanism: A Cinematic History, was published within Cambridge University Press's Global Middle East book series in 2019. Her most recent research project focuses on travel and institutionalisation of tourism in pre-1979 Iran.

At Seton Hall, Dr. Rekabtalaei teaches undergraduate courses on the history of the Middle East and North Africa, as well as World History. She is also the Co-Director of the Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program at Seton Hall University.