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is a social and cultural anthropologist. She was awarded the first Fulbright fellowship after the Revolution for research in Iran (2000). She received her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University and has taught at New York University, the University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies) and was a senior visiting Fellow at St Anthony’s College Oxford. She is currently an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She is the author of Warring Souls, Media, Martyrdom and Youth in post-Revolution Iran, Duke University Press, 2006. She has published widely on Iranian popular culture, the culture of the Iran-Iraq war and Iranian cinema. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, The New York Press, Eastern Art Report, American Anthropologist and Public Culture Journal. She has also published short stories (she won the Society for Anthropology and Humanism fiction Award in 2007) and her first ethnographic experimental film on mourning and martyrdom in Iran, Plastic Flowers Never Die, was completed in June 2007.