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- 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 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, , visual anthropology, , devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. Since July 2020, Khosronejad is curator of Persian Arts at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia; an 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 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. (en)
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- 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 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, , visual anthropology, , devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. (en)
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