Pedram Khosronejad

Pedram Khosronejad (Persian: پدرام خسرونژاد‎‎; born 1969 Tehran, Iran) 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 PhD grant in 2000. He obtained his D.E.A. (Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies) at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Sorbonne, Paris) and obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world.

Contents

• Qajar African Nannies African Slaves and Aristocratic Babies
• Administrative and Editorial Activities
• Films
• Online multimedia research platforms
• References

Currently Dr. P. Khosronejad is 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. Between 2007-2015 he hold 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.

Administrative and Editorial Activities

Founder and series editor, Iranian Studies, Berlin-Münster-Wien-Zürich-London: LIT Verlag, 2014. [1]

Founder The Avini Collection, fully academic and university-based research collection (University of St Andrews, U.K.) which currently includes 516 books and films (both documentary and fiction) on different topics and angles vis-à-vis the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), 2013.[2]

Founder and curator, Ethnographic Film and Media Festival of the Anthropology of the MiddleEast and Central Eurasia, 2012.[3]

Founder and chief editor, Journal of Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME), Sean Kingston Publishing, U.K, 2012.[4]

Founder and series editor, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies, Sean Kingston Publishing, U.K, 2011. [5]

Founder and moderator, the Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, China) Network, European Association of Social Anthropologists, 2010.[6]

Films

Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors- Trailer Date: 2014, Running time: 70', Director: Pedram Khosronejad, Camera: Marie Chevais, Pedram Khosronejad,Editing: Sepideh Abtahi037

The Last Lions of Bakhtiyari (Dedicated to David Brooks) Date: 2014, Research, camera and sound: Pedram Khosronejad, Director: Pedram Khosronejad, 25 mins, DVD, Color, Narration in French by Jean-Claude Carriere, Postproduction: CNRS-Image

Online multimedia research platforms

Bakhtiari Sacred Landscape

Bakhtiari Women's Lamentations

Sorudkhani and Shahnamehkhani among the Bakhtiari