Pedram Khosronejad


Pedram Khosronejad is a socio-cultural and visual anthropologist of contemporary Iran. He is of Iranian origin and commenced his studies in Painting and in Visual Art Research before moving to France with a PhD grant in 2000. He obtained his D.E.A. at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and obtained his PhD at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world.
Currently Dr. Khosronejad is an at the Religion and Society Research Cluster in School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University; and Curator of Persian Arts at , Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Khosronejad was at the School of International Studies/School of Media&Strategic Communications of Oklahoma State University, U.S.A.
Between 2007-2015 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.

German Civilian Expatriates of Persia & WWII

Since August 2019 Dr. Khosronejad has been working on a groundbreaking interdisciplinary research project regarding the , Australians who had been after the country’s during the Second World War. This project concerns of 512 who were detained in and their contribution to the field of and also to the development of . It is astonishing to learn that the author of , great orientalist and archaeologist, and Karl Jan Zoubek professor of music at the University of Tehran, were among them.

Photography of African Slavery in Qajar Era Iran

For the first time in the history of Iranian Studies, in 2014, when Dr. Khosronejad was a visiting professor at the Nantes Institute for Advanced Studies and at the same time held a Chair position at the University of Nantes in France, he discovered a new and controversial topic, the Photography of African Slavery in Qajar-Era Iran, through archival photography, interviews and scattered texts. Since then he has organised and curated more than fifteen academic photo exhibitions, and has given talks and seminars in over twenty universities and museums all around the world regarding Iranian photography of African slavery and race, gender, and ethnic issues.