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Email: mazyar.l@uci.eduBiography PhD, Rice University, 1999, Anthropology
My research interests, broadly defined, concern productions of knowledge in the Muslim world. I have been studying the development of professional cultures in the contemporary Islamic world. Methodologically, I have done comparative and multi-sited work from an interdisciplinary perspective. For this I have been looking into two transnational communities, the scientific community and the artist community – two communities whose cultural productions involve interaction of people, objects, and discourses. My projects thematically cover a wide range of topics that concern culture and politics in the Muslim world and its diasporas, including the imaginaries of Muslim scientists, transnational networks, religion, technology, and mediation (various media types including the evolving new media), aesthetics and politics in the context of Islamic resurgence.
My publications include a book, a book section, several articles on such areas as Islam and globalization, and book reviews. I have taught at University of Pittsburgh, Yale University, The New School University, and Emerson College. I was a resident scholar at the Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC during the academic year 2006-07. I have also had post-doctoral appointments at Harvard and NYU.
Selected Publications:
On Science Technology Studies in Muslim Societies
2009 - “The Iranian Scientific Community and its Diaspora after the Islamic Revolution.” Anthropological Quarterly. Volume 82, No. 1, Winter 2009.
2004 - Islam, Technoscientific Identities, and the Culture of Curiosity. University Press of America.
2001 - "Knowledge Systems and Islamic Discourses: A Genealogy of Keywords on the Development of Science and Technology in Transcultural Context." In Cultural Dynamics, 13(2), July 2001.
On Visual Culture, Religion, and Media
2009 - lsamic Revolution and the Circulation of Visual Culture. In Radical History Review. Issue 105. Summer 2009.
2008 in Persian - Does the New Wave of Iranian Documentaries Needs Anthropologists? Interview with Reza Bahraminejad, Filmmaker
On Anthropology of Iran:
2008 In Persian - “Global Aspects of Iranian Anthropology: A Conversation with Michael Fischer,” The Journal of Iranian Anthropology Quarterly. Tehran University. Number 4. Spring 2008.
1996 - “Working Through Psychological Understandings of Diasporic Conditions.” Ethos, 24(1), 1996.
Encyclopedia:
2003 - “Abu’l-Hasan Bani Sadr.” Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Richard Martin, ed., New York: Macmillan Reference.
2003 - “Muhammad Husayn Fadlalah.” Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Richard Martin, ed., New York: Macmillan Reference.
2003 - “Mehdi Bazargan.” Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Richard Martin, ed., New York: Macmillan Reference.
2003 - “Najaf.” Contributions to the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World. Richard Martin, ed., New York: Macmillan Reference. |
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