Associate Professor Pedram Khosronejad
Adjunct Professor - School of Social Sciences,
Dean's Unit, School of Social Sciences
Biography
Pedram Khosronejad is Adjunct Professor at the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University and the founding moderator of Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia (ACME) Network of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is internationally recognised for his contribution to the fields of visual piety and material religion; war, memory and forced displacement; gender, sexuality, and race including slavery in modern Iran and Persianate societies, the greater Middle East and Central Asia, the Muslim world and Australia. In particular, he explores the manners by which culture, memory, and visual material are bound up in as well as influenced and altered by wider political, social, and cultural trends.
Professor Khosronejad has taught at the University of Oxford (2004-2007) and was appointed as the Goli Rais Larizadeh Chair of the Iran Heritage Foundation for the Anthropology of Iran at the University of St Andrews (2007-2015). He was also a Visiting Professor at the National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka (2013-2014) and elected as a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Nantes (2014-2015). He also served as Farzaneh Family Scholar and Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies at the Oklahoma State University (2015-2019). Between July 2020 and January 2023, he was appointed as the Curator of Persian Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney.
His research has been funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the British Academy, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), amongst others. His monograph, Les Lions en Pierre Sculptée chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une société tribale du sud-ouest de l'Iran [Stone Lion Sculptures among the Bakhtiari: Descriptions and Meanings of Zoomorphoric Sculptures in a Tribal Society of South-western Iran] (Sean Kingston, 2012) remains as one of the pioneering pluridisciplinary investigations of the interconnections of memory, religion, and tribal sacred material culture. He has published in English, French, and Persian in Visual Anthropology, International Journal of Communication, Iranian Studies, Iran (Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, the British Academy), and Anthropology News. He has edited six interdisciplinary volumes and served as guest editor of two special issues on visual anthropology and anthropology of post-revolutionary Iran. He also designed and published three online interactive anthropological research platforms (Digital Humanities) on the topic of ‘Death and Dying’ based on a ten-year period extensive living and performing multifaceted ethnography amongst the Bakhtiari pastoral nomads of Iran. His documentary film The Last Lions of the Bakhtiari was financed by the British Academy, produced by the French National Centre for Scientific Research, and presented at several ethnographical film festivals including Regards Compare- Festival Jean Rouch and The Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival.
Since August 2019, Professor Khosronejad has been working on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary research project about German civilian expatriates of Iran who had been detained by the British Army in Iran in 1941 after the country’s invasion during the Second World War, brought to the Australian Internment Prison Camps, and stayed in Australia since the end of war.
This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Khosronejad.
Qualifications
- PhD EHESS, Paris, France
Interests
- Socio-cultural Anthropology
- Visual Anthropology and Ethnographic Film
- Visual Piety and Material Religion
- African Slavery in Modern Iran
- Migrant Heritage, Oral History, and Memory
Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Dean's Unit, School of Social Sciences
Contact
| Email: | P.Khosronejad@westernsydney.edu.au |
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| Mobile: | 0431136502 |
| Location: | 3.8.11 |
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Publications
Books
- Khosronejad, P. (2018), 'The Royal Lens: Naser al-Din Shah's Photography of his Harem', : Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program at Oklahoma State University 9780999480120.
- Khosronejad, P. (2018), 'Qajar Shiite Material Culture: From the Court of Naser al-Din Shah to Popular Religious Paintings', : Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program, Oklahoma State University 9780999480113.
- Khosronejad, P. (2017), 'Qajar African Nannies: African Slaves and Aristocratic Babies', : Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies Program at Oklahoma State University 9780999480106.
- Khosronejad, P. (2015), 'Untold Stories: The Socio-Cultural Life of Images in Qajar Era Iran', : LIT Verlag 9783643906076.
- Khosronejad, P. (2015), 'Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities: Methodological and Theoretical Challenges', : LIT Verlag 9783643906052.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran', : Routledge 9780415523981.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'Les Lions en Pierre Sculptee chez les Bakhtiari: Description et significations de sculptures zoomorphes dans une societe tribale du sud-ouest de l'Iran [The Lion Tombstones of the Bakhtiari Pastoral Nomads: Description and Meaning of Animal Sculptures in Tribal Society of South-West Iran]', : Sean Kingston Publishing 9781907774225.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam', : I.B. Tauris 9781848851689.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Saints and Their Pilgrams in Iran and Neighbouring Countries', : Sean Kingston Publishing 9781907774140.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity', : Sean Kingston Publishing 9781907774171.
- Khosronejad, P. (2011), 'Photography and Cinematography in Qajar Era Iran: 27-28 August, 2011', : University of St. Andrews .
Chapters in Books
- Khosronejad, P. (2019), 'The Ahl-i Beyt bodies : the mural paintings of Lahijan in the tradition of Persian Shiite figurations', Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires, Bloomsbury Academic 9781350078635.
- Khosronejad, P. (2015), 'Gageriveh, Bakhtiari women's lamentations : between self-suffering and tribal identity', Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Shiite Iran and Muslim Communities: Methodological and Theoretical Challenges, LIT Verlag 9783643906052.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'Introduction: unburied memories', Unburied Memories: The Politics of Bodies of Sacred Defense Martyrs in Iran, Routledge 9780415523981.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'The people of the air : healing and spirit possession South Iran', Shamanism and Islam: Sufism, Healing Rituals and Spirits in the Muslim World, I.B. Tauris 9781848856028.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Lions' representation in Bakhtiari oral tradition and funerary material culture', The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam, I.B. Tauris 9781848851689.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Introduction', The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shi'ism: Iconography and Religious Devotion in Shi'i Islam, I.B. Taurus 9781848851689.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'The Iran-Iraq War and the creation of Sacred Defence cinema', Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema: Religion, Martyrdom and National Identity, Sean Kingston Publishing 9781907774171.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Anthropology, Islam and sainthood', Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries, Sean Kingston Publishing 9781907774140.
Journal Articles
- Possamai, A., Openshaw, K., Khosronejad, P., Rasheed, A. and Mubashar, A. (2022), 'Ramadan : devotion, compassion, and purification in Sydney', Contemporary Islam, vol 16 , pp 193 - 207.
- Khosronejad, P. (2022), 'Charkha and Kargha : Indian textile exhibition from the Powerhouse', TAASA Review, vol 31, no 4 , pp 10 - 11.
- Khosronejad, P. (2021), 'Chief editor's introduction to the special volume : Beauty and the Beast : Photography, Body and Sexual Discourse in the Middle East', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 5, no 1-2 .
- Khosronejad, P. (2021), 'Eroticism and nudity in Iranian photography : from royal harem to the red-light districts (a century of visual review)', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 5, no 1-2 , pp 127 - 174.
- Khosronejad, P. and Eskandari-Qajar, M. (2021), 'Unveiling the veiled : royal consorts, slaves and prostitutes in Qajar photographs : an exhibition at the McCune Library, UC Santa Barbara', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 5, no 1-2 , pp 287 - 302.
- Khosronejad, P. (2021), 'Fajouriyeh, an exceptional Persian pornographic manuscript of Qajar-era Iran', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 5, no 1-2 , pp 214 - 286.
- Khosronejad, P. (2021), 'King's camera erotica : Naser al-Din Shah and his collaborators inside the royal harem', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 5, no 1-2 , pp 27 - 63.
- Khosronejad, P. (2021), 'Pair of Qajar war armband amulets in the Persian collection, Powerhouse Museum', TAASA Review, vol 30, no 3 , pp 24 - 24.
- Khoubdel, H. and Khosronejad, P. (2020), 'Aroosi : 150 years of Iranian wedding traditions', Sateen Art Magazine, vol 14 , pp 48 - 59.
- Khosronejad, P. and Moezzi, F. (2019), 'Bagh-e Ferdows Az Dirzaman-e Shokoufayi', Tarikh-e Moaser-e Iran = Iranian Contemporary History, vol 20, no 79-80 , pp 239 - 271.
- Khosronejad, P. and Moezzi, F. (2019), 'Aroosi-e Shahan-e', Kargadan, vol 108, no 156 , pp 124 - 127.
- Khosronejad, P. (2018), 'In the absence of fieldwork', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 4, no 1 , pp 56 - 96.
- Khosronejad, P. (2018), 'Book review : A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 4, no 1 , pp 102 - 105.
- Khosronejad, P. (2017), 'Out of focus : photography of African slavery in Qajar Iran', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle east and Central Eurasia, vol 4, no 1 , pp 1 - 31.
- Khosronejad, P. (2017), 'Two photograph albums from the Moayer family', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 4, no 2 , pp 81 - 105.
- Khosronejad, P. (2017), 'Afro-Iranians through the lens of documentarists', Canadian Journal of History, vol 52, no 2 , pp 323 - 325.
- Khosronejad, P. and Moezzi, F. (2017), 'Golchehreh : Dadeh Bardeh Siyah-e Haram-e Nasseri', Tarikh-e Moaser-e Iran = Iranian Contemporary History, vol 21, no 81-82 , pp 305 - 313.
- Khosronejad, P. (2016), 'Gozareshi Az Do Albom-e Aks Az Khanehvadehy-e Moayyer', Tarikh-e Moaser-e Iran = Iranian Contemporary History, vol 20, no 77-78 , pp 303 - 318.
- Khosronejad, P. and Zarcone, T. (2014), 'Visual representations of the Persian dervish in Sufi art and material culture : preliminary report from the Bunyad Institute, Tehran, Iran (part 1)', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 2, no 2 , pp 185 - 208.
- Khosronejad, P. (2014), 'A rare Bakhtiari Sufi manuscript : genealogy of Siyid Muhammad Parhizkar', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 2, no 2 , pp 208 - 237.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'Reflections on the diversity and religious functions of holy places and sacred stones among Bakhtiari nomads', Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia, vol 1, no 2 , pp 143 - 169.
- Khosronejad, P. (2013), 'Digital ethnography, resistance art, and communication media in Iran', International Journal of Communication, vol 7 , pp 1298 - 1315.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Introduction : unburied memories', Visual Anthropology, vol 25, no 1-2 , pp 1 - 21.
- Khosronejad, P. (2012), 'Remembering the Sacred Defence : Iran-Iraq war memorials', Anthropology News, vol 52, no 6 , pp 15 - 15.
- Khosronejad, P. (2011), 'Some observations on visual representations of the 2009 Iranian presidential election crisis', Iranian Studies, vol 44, no 3 , pp 395 - 408.
- Khosronejad, P. (2011), 'Guest editor's introduction : beyond the Iranian frame : from visual representation to socio-political drama', Iranian Studies, vol 44, no 3 , pp 309 - 312.
Exhibitions
- 2021, 'Iranzamin Exhibition'
- 2021, 'Iranzamin'
- 2020, 'Aroosi: 150 Years of Iranian Wedding Traditions'
- 2019, 'Photography, Race and Slavery: African Sitters of Qajar Era of Iran'
- 2018, 'Unveiling the Veiled'
- 2018, 'Re-imagining Iranian African Slavery: Photography as Material Culture'
- 2018, 'The Qajar Lens: Diversity in Qajar Photography'
- 2011, 'Photography and Cinematography of Qajar Era Iran: 27 August-1 September 2011'
Other Publications
- 2023, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Sangeeta Sandrasegar: Crossing Cultures', Recorded Work
- 2023, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Majid Rabet: Engineer/Artist/Refugee', Recorded Work
- 2022, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Reimagining Florence Broadhurst', Recorded Work
- 2022, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Shireen Taweel: Between Cultures', Recorded Work
- 2022, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Cadry's Enormous Legacy', Recorded Work
- 2022, 'Inside the Gallery (Australia): Charkha And Kargha', Recorded Work
- 2021, 'Interview/podcast about the Iranzamin Exhibition', Recorded Work
- 2014, 'Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors', Recorded Work
- 2004, 'The Last Lions of Bakhtiyari', Recorded Work
Media
| Title: | German Civilian Expatriates of Persia |
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| Description: | Research Platform |
| Title: | Photography, Race and Slavery: African sitters of Qajar Era Iran |
| Description: | Photography, Race and Slavery: African sitters of Qajar Era Iran (Opening Remarks) Photo Exhibition, 23 Sept.-18 Oct., 2019 UNSW Library, Sydney, Australia |
| Title: | Photography of African Slavery in Iran |
| Description: | Interview of Dr. Louise Siddons, Associate Professor of Art History (Dept. of Art, Oklahoma State University) with Dr. Pedram Khosronejad, Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (School of International Studies/School of Media& Strategic Communications, Oklahoma State University, 2017) |
| Title: | The face of African slavery in Qajar Iran ??? in pictures |
| Description: | Thu 14 Jan 2016 23.59 AEDT |
| Title: | THE QAJAR LENS: DIVERSITY IN QAJAR PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Description: | Photo Exhibition THE QAJAR LENS: DIVERSITY IN QAJAR PHOTOGRAPHY (MARCH 26 - MAY 4, 2018) |
| Title: | Digital Afterlives: from archives to cyberspace |
| Description: | Reckoning With Slavery: New Directions in the History, Memory, Legacy, and Popular Representations of Enslavement, November 16-18 at the Schomburg Center, The New York Public Library |
| Title: | Qajar African Nannies: African Slaves and Aristocratic Babies |
| Description: | Qajar African Nannies: African Slaves and Aristocratic Babies ?? Series: Visual Studies of Modern Iran (Book 1) ?? Hardcover ?? Publisher: Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies (Ipgs) (October 10, 2017) ?? Language: English ?? ISBN-10: 0999480103 ?? ISBN-13: 978-0999480106 |
| Title: | The Royal Lens: Naser al-Din Shah???s Photography of his Harem |
| Description: | The Royal Lens Naser al-Din Shah???s Photography of his Harem |
| Title: | Qajar Shiite Material Culture: From the Court of Naser Al-Din Shah to Popular Religious Paintings |
| Description: | This catalogue is one of the first visual representations of the material religion and art objects of Naser al-Din Shah???s court, vis ?? vis popular Shiite beliefs during the Naseri period (1848-1896). |
| Title: | Lion Tombstones and their Sculptors- Trailer |
| Description: | Iran/France/UK Date: 2013 Running time: 70' Director: Pedram Khosronejad Camera: Marie Chevais, Pedram Khosronejad, Editing: Sepideh Abtahi |
| Title: | The Last Lions of Bakhtiyari (Dedicated to David Brooks) |
| Description: | The Last Lions of Bakhtiyari (Dedicated to David Brooks) Research, camera and sound: Pedram Khosronejad Director: Pedram Khosronejad 2004, 25 mins, DVD, Color Narration in French by Jean-Claude Carriere Postproduction: CNRS-Image |