Sholeh Shahrohki
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of History and Anthropology
Phone: (317)
940-8535
Email: ssharohk@butler.edu
Research Areas
Her research projects in Iran, France, United Kingdom and the
United States have focused on the formation of values and norms
among Iranian youth - particularly with respect to topics of
sexuality and politics of gender. Her graduate and post-graduate
research projects seek to ask questions about the ways in which
collective identities are forged and contested current political
economy of the globe. Her writing on ethnographic research in Iran
aims to bring forth mechanisms for negotiating representation of
population, as well as the range of strategies for contesting rules
of inclusion/exclusion of people. In addition to the study of
visual representation in/of the Islamic Republic of Iran, she has
conducted research on a number of projects including:
alternative lifestyles among young Iranians in the US (1994),
spatial claims, border-crossing, and resistance to urban violence
as experienced by marginal populations such as teen-runaway females
in Tehran, Iran (2000-2005), re-evaluation of martyrdom and
sacrifice in the post-war Iranian cinema (2007-2009); the
burgeoning trends in cosmetic surgery and shifting ideals of
masculinity and conceptions of beauty (2005-2009); politics of
intervention, humanitarian wars and rhetoric of rescue; sexuality
and body politics in street protest (2009-2010); the embodiment of
art and aesthetics in political protests - e.e. the Iranian green
movement (2012-2013).
Courses Taught
AN 326 - Youth and Conflict in Global Cinema
AN 320 - Gender and Sexuality through Globalization
AN 311 - Trespass: Anthropology of Difference