Dr. Sepideh Maziar

Sepideh Maziar is an associate researcher at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. She got her undergraduate degree in archaeology from the University of Tehran in Iran and achieved her Ph.D. in southwest Asian archaeology from Goethe university of Frankfurt, Germany. She directed archaeological fieldwork in Iran and Azerbaijan and is currently engaged in excavation the Prehistory site of Tappeh Balu in Iran and Kültepe II in Naxçivan. Her research interests include migration, social identity, collective memory, social networks, and resilience strategies in diasporic contexts, with a focus on prehistoric communities of southwest Asia.