Doctoral Dissertation Research: Publishers, Translators, and the Circulation of Western Texts in Iran

耶鲁大学博士候选人Hosna Sheikholeslami在Karen中村博士的指导下，将研究社会科学和哲学思想如何以及为什么跨文化传播。她的特别重点将是出版商和翻译在促进选定的理论和思想家的作用;她将调查的过程中，围绕选择，翻译，出版，传播和接受介绍文本。研究将在伊朗德黑兰进行。研究人员将采用广泛的社会科学研究方法，包括半结构化访谈，参与者观察，职业故事访谈，生活史访谈，认知科学方法，媒体分析，档案研究和翻译的深入研究。以四家主要出版社为重点，将从现任和前任出版商、翻译、编辑、知识分子、审查员、官僚、印刷商、分销商、书店老板、评论家和读者那里收集数据。这项研究很重要，因为它将是第一个将翻译和出版过程添加到知识如何跨越社会和文化边界传播的理论中的系统研究之一。这项研究的结果将有助于提供有关西方思想和文本在伊斯兰社会中传播的重要信息。资助这项研究也支持研究生的教育。

Yale University doctoral candidate Hosna Sheikholeslami, with the guidance of Dr. Karen Nakamura, will undertake research on how and why social scientific and philosophical ideas travel across cultures. Her particular focus will be the role of publishers and translators in the promotion of selected theories and thinkers; she will investigate the process that surround the selection, translation, publication, dissemination, and acceptance of introduced texts.The research is to be conducted in Tehran, Iran. The researcher will employ a wide range of social science research methods including semi-structured interviews, participant observation, career story interviews, life history interviews, cognitive science methodologies, media analysis, archival research, and intensive study of translations. Focusing on four major publishing houses, data will be gathered from current and former publishers, translators, editors, intellectuals, censors, bureaucrats, printers, distributors, bookstore owners, reviewers, and readers. The research is important because it will be one of the first systematic studies to add the processes of translation and publication to theories of how knowledge circulates across societal and cultural boundaries. Findings from this research will contribute important information about the circulation of Western ideas and texts in Islamic societies. Funding this research also supports the education of a graduate student.