Danial Vahabli

PhD Candidate in Sociology   

Email: danial.vahabli@stonybrook.edu
Website: https://www.danialvahabli.com/

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Area of Interest: Social Movements, Political Sociology, Globalization, Computational Social science

Danial Vahabli is a political sociologist interested in the intersection of resistance, culture, and globalization. He is currently a sociology PhD Candidate at Stony Brook University, NY and a graduate fellow of Institute for Advanced Computational Science.

In his dissertation project, he focuses on international support to domestic social movements. He investigates how and why domestic dissidents seek international support, how domestic concerns are represented in the international media, and lastly the impact of international support on domestic movements. Additionally, He is interested in conceptualizing the popular resistance culture under authoritarianism, by focusing on public yet transgressive spaces.