Vahid Qarabagli

Field Research Coordinator

Vahid Qarabagli holds a Master’s degree in Education and Society from McGill University. His thesis explored the role of subaltern educators in empowering minoritized languages through a case study of the Azerbaijani Civic Nation and Turki. It examined the underground linguistic, cultural, and educational activism of Turk educators in Iranian Azerbaijan during the 1990s and 2000s in Tabriz, as well as their continued advocacy in exile, particularly in Toronto, Canada. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology, with a minor in Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice, from the University of British Columbia. His primary research interests include subaltern education, sociology of language, social movements, diversity, inclusion/exclusion, racism, and critical discourse analysis.