MOHSEN MONJI

I am a Bakhtiari and Qashqai scholar, Indigenous to the Zagros Mountains, working at the intersections of critical Indigenous studies, Black feminist thought, and decolonial public health. My research explores how historical and ongoing systems of power and inequality—including colonialism and racial capitalism—shape health policies, systems, and outcomes in settler-colonial contexts.

I was born and raised on the Indigenous lands of the Bakhtiari people in southwest Iran, where the first oil field in West Asia was "discovered" in 1908 ; a colonial encounter that profoundly transformed the land, dispossessing many Indigenous Bakhtiari communities of their ancestral territories and resources. Today, I live and work on unceded Indigenous lands. Tiohtià:ke/Montréal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations. The Kanien’kehá:ka Nation is the custodian of the lands and waters on which I live today.