We are thrilled to announce that Associate Professor Amy Motlagh from the College of Letters and Science at UC Davis has been awarded the UC Davis Revitalization Research Program Grant! Associate Professor Amy Motlagh’s revitalization grant will fund a book project titled Invisible Men: A Cultural History of Facial Thinking in Modern Iran and the Diaspora, which analyzes the cultural output of prominent authors and filmmakers, as well as the critics and scholars who have engaged their work, to showcase how contemporary understandings of race and slavery in Iran have contributed to a “modern” Iranian identity.

For more information about the Revitalization Research Program Grants and other faculty achievements, visit the UC Davis College of Letters and Science website.