School of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies 975 S. Myrtle Ave P.O.Box 874302
TEMPE, AZ 85287-4302
Mail code: 4302
Campus: Tempe
Long Bio
Shahla Talebi is assistant professor of religious studies, School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies, Arizona State University. A native of Iran, she lived through the 1979 Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War and left Iran in 1994 for the United States where she now resides. She received her undergraduate degree in social-cultural anthropology from University of California at Berkeley and her master's and doctorate, also in social cultural anthropology, from Columbia University.
Talebi's research interests include questions of self sacrifice and martyrdom, violence, memory, trauma, death, burial, funerary rituals, commemoration and memorialization or their banning, religion, revolution, and nation-state in contemporary Iran. Talebi’s manuscript entitled "Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran" is forthcoming by Stanford University Press.
Education
Ph.D. Social-cultural Anthropology, Columbia University 2007
M.A. Social-cultural Anthropology, Columbia University 2004
M.Phil. Social-cultural Anthropology, Columbia University 2002
B.A. Social-cultural Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley 1999
Publications
Shahla Talebi. The Living Monuments of Mourning: Struggles to Reclaim Life and Death in Post-Revolutionary Iran. Women and Peace in the Islamic World:Gender, Agency and Influence (2015).
Shahla Talebi. Children as Protectors: The Conditions of Parenthood in a Political Prison in Iran. Penal Field (Champ Pénal) (2014).
Shahla Talebi. Cosmopolitan Resistance and Territorial Suppression: A Story of Dissidence and The Islamic Republic of Iran. Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging (2014).
Shahla Talebi. A Iranian Martyr’s Dilemma: The Finite Subject’s Infinite Responsibility. Journal of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CCASAME) (2013).
Shahla Talebi. From The Light of the Eyes to the Eyes of the Power: State and Dissident Martyrs in Post- Revolutionary Iran. Journal of Visual Anthropology (2012).
Shahla Talebi. Who is Behind the Name: A Story of Violence, Loss, and Melancholic Survival in Post-revolutionary Iran. Journal of the Middle East and Women's Studies (2011).
Shahla Talebi. Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran. (2011).
