Editor for Persian, Turkic, and Biblical Studies
Sara Zanotta is a postdoctoral research fellow in the ERC CoG REDMIX “Unpacking Mixedness for an Inclusive History of the Red Sea, 1800s-2000s” at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Turin. Her current research takes advantage of digital humanities to explore mobility, migration, and mixedness through the global micro-histories of Iranians who established themselves in the Red Sea world in the 19th and 20th centuries.
She holds a PhD in Asian History from the Department of Political and Social Sciences of the University of Pavia, Italy where she examined the political activism of Iranian communities abroad (in Asia, Europe, and North-East Africa) between the 1850s and the 1910s. Her PhD thesis received the 2025 honorary mention of the Walter-Markov-Prize of the European Network in Universal and Global History.
She was a visiting PhD student at the Central European University in Vienna, at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the University of Bamberg, and at the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies and a visiting researcher at Centre de Recherche sur le Monde Iranien in Paris. She is a teaching assistant of History and Institutions of Muslim Countries at the University of Milan.