PhD Candidate, Political Science, York University
Research Interests: Aytak Akbari-Dibavar is a PhD student at the department of Political Science at York University majoring in International Relations and Women and Politics. As a 2016 Trudeau Scholar and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow Aytak’s research investigates the trans-generational transmission of political trauma in authoritarian states where public debate and discussion are impossible. Her hypothesis is that survivors of state violence transmit their trauma to their children through private, familial mechanisms that cohere to produce a collective political identity in the subsequent generation that can be traced in that generation’s organizing and activism.
Email: aytakd@gmail.com