Pedram Khosronejad Explained

Pedram Khosronejad
Birth Date:2 April 1969
Birth Name:Pedram Khosronejad
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
Discipline:Social anthropology and Visual anthropology
Alma Mater:University of Tehran
Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
Doctoral Advisor:Thierry Zarcone
Thesis Title:Les Lions en Pierre Sculptés chez les Bakhtiâri : Description et Significations de Sculptures Zoomorphes dans une Société Tribale du Sud-ouest de l'Iran
Thesis Year:2007

Pedram Khosronejad (Persian: پدرام خسرونژاد; born 1969) is a socio-cultural and visual anthropologist of contemporary Iran. 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)[1] and obtained his Ph.D. at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris).[2] His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, holy artifacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world.

Since July 2020, Khosronejad has been curator of Persian Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia;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. [3] He is chair of The Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.[4]

German Civilian Expatriates of Persia & WWII

Since August 2019, Khosronejad has been working on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary research project regarding the Civilian Expatriates of Persia (Iran), Australians who had been detained with their parents in Iran in 1941 after the country's invasion by the British and Soviet Armies during the Second World War. This project concerns the life stories of 512 German civilian internees who were detained in Australian internment camps and their contribution to the field of Iranian Studies and also to the development of Australia after the war period. It is astonishing to learn that Dr. Hans Eberhard Wulff the author of 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.

Photography of African Slavery in Qajar Era Iran

For the first time in the history of Iranian Studies, in 2014, when Khosronejad was a visiting professor at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies and at the same time held a chair position at the University of Nantes in France, he discovered a new and controversial topic, the Photography of African Slavery in Qajar-Era Iran, through archival photography, interviews and scattered texts. Since then, he has organized and curated more than fifteen academic photo exhibitions (e.g. University of California Davis, the University of California Santa Barbara, and the University of New South Wales), and has given talks and seminars in over twenty universities and museums all around the world (e.g. Johns Hopkins University, University of California Irvine, Schomburg Center, New York Public Library, University of Tehran, and National Library and Archive of Iran) regarding Iranian photography of African slavery and race, gender, and ethnic issues.

Administrative and editorial activities

Selected bibliography

Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity, Sean Kingston Publishing, U.K. (Editor, 2012)

Films

Online multimedia research platforms

External links

Notes and References

  1. The Ecole pratique des hautes études (EPHE) is a leading institution of higher education and research, which provides highly specialized practical training in basic and applied research within three core Sections: Earth and Life Sciences; Historical and Philological Sciences; Religious Sciences.
  2. The EHESS comprises over 47 research centers, 37 shared with the Centre national de la recherche scientifique. It nevertheless does not constitute a research institute in the conventional sense of the word. Life at the school is centered on research training. Students work alongside experienced researchers, a perspective from which they gain privileged access to the mechanics of research in progress.
  3. Web site: Dr Pedram Khosronejad. University of St. Andrews, Department of Social Anthropology .
  4. Web site: Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.

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