Ashkan Hashemipour
DPhil Candidate
Ashkan Hashemipour is a doctoral candidate in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at New College. His research explores Iranian student activism during the 1960s and 1970s and focuses particularly on students’ formation of transnational networks and the influence of these networks on the Iranian guerrilla movement. He is supervised by Dr Maryam Alemzadeh and is the recipient of an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) scholarship, which is partially supported by the Clarendon Fund.
Ashkan holds an MPhil in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Oxford and a BA (Hons) in Political Science and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations from the University of Chicago. As part of his undergraduate degree, he undertook a year of study at Sciences Po Paris.
Outside of his studies, Ashkan is passionate about linguistics and, in addition to English, speaks Persian, French, and Spanish fluently and is research proficient in Modern Standard Arabic and Portuguese.