Academic interests
Alisa Shablovskaia is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oslo pursuing a project on the conceptual history of shura (consultation) in the modern Turco-Persian World.
Background
Alisa's scholarship deals with the history of Irano-Russian and Irano-Ottoman relations, Iranian communism, late Qajar intellectual history and the connected history of Russian, Turkish and Iranian concepts. Her book manuscript, The Great War of Decolonization: The End of Russian Imperialism in Iran, 1914-1917, analyzes the center-periphery dynamics in the imperial context and highlights the role of local agencies in the imperial crisis and collapse. She received her PhD in Oriental Languages and Civilizations from Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University in 2021. Her research has been supported by the Université Sorbonne Paris-Cité "Double Culture" Research Fellowship, the French Institute of Iranian Studies (Tehran) Traveling Fellowship, the French Institute of Anatolian Studies, the French Institute of Central Asian Studies, and the Paris Center of Iranian Studies (CNRS). Alisa has also taught a series of courses on the history of international relations, geopolitics and Islamic civilizations at the Paris Institute of Political Studies from 2021 and 2023.
Positions held
- Teaching Fellow at Sciences Po Le Havre (2021-2023)
- Research and Teaching Assistant at the Paris Institute of Polititcal Studies (2019-2020)
- Doctoral Researcher at the Paris Center of Iranian Studies-CeRMI, CNRS (2016-2021)