Pedram Khosronejad (; born 1969) is a socio-cultural and visual

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

of contemporary

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. He is of Iranian origin and commenced his studies in painting (B.A. University of Art, Tehran, Iran) and in Visual Art Research (M.A. University of Art, Tehran, Iran) before moving to France with a Ph.D. grant in 2000. He obtained his D.E.A. (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies) at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ( Sorbonne, Paris) and obtained his Ph.D. at the

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (, EHESS) is a graduate ''grande école'' and '' grand établissement'' in Paris focused on academic research in the social sciences. The school awards Master and PhD degrees alone and conj ...

(Paris). His research interests include cultural and

social anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

, the anthropology of death and dying,

visual anthropology Visual anthropology is a subfield of social anthropology that is concerned, in part, with the study and production of ethnography, ethnographic photography, film and, since the mid-1990s, new media. More recently it has been used by historians ...

, visual piety, holy artifacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran,

Persianate societies A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity. The term "Persianate" is a neologism credited to Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, ''The Venture of Is ...

and the

Islamic world The terms Islamic world and Muslim world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to the religious beliefs, politics, and laws of Islam or to societies in which Islam is ...

. Since July 2020, Khosronejad has been curator of Persian Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australi
adjunct professor at the Religion and Society Research Cluster in School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University''
and a fellow at the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Between 2015 and 2019, Khosronejad was the Farzaneh Family Scholar and associate director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies at the School of International Studies/School of Media&Strategic Communications of Oklahoma State University, U.S. Between 2007 and 2015, he held the position of Goli Rais Larizadeh Fellow of the Iran Heritage Foundation for the Anthropology of Iran in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Since its creation, this full-time academic position remained the only academic appointment in Europe and the West dedicated entirely to the anthropology of Iran. He is chair of The Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

German Civilian Expatriates of Persia & WWII

Since August 2019, Khosronejad has been working on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary research project regarding th
Civilian Expatriates of Persia
(Iran)
Australians
who had been detained with thei
parents
in Iran in 1941 after th
country's invasion
by the British and Soviet Armies during the Second World War. This project concerns the life stories o
512 German
civilian internees who were detained i
Australian internment camps
and thei
contribution
to the field of Iranian Studies and also to th

after the war period. It is astonishing to learn tha
Dr. Hans Eberhard Wulff
the author o
The Traditional Crafts of Persia
Prof. Wilhelm Max Eilers great orientalist and archaeologist, and Karl Jan Zoubek, professor of music at the University of Tehran, was among them.

References

External links

* Personal websit

* Personal page (Western Sydney University

* LinkedI

* The Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Networ

* Academic.ed

{{DEFAULTSORT:Khosronejad, Pedram 1969 births Living people Iranian anthropologists École pratique des hautes études alumni People from Tehran Academics of the University of St Andrews School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences alumni University of Tehran alumni