Sholeh Shahrokhi

Biography

Sholeh Shahrokhi is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at Butler University. Dr. Shahrokhi received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 2008. In the same year, she began teaching here at Butler in the Department of History and Anthropology, and across interdisciplinary programs such as Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies; Peace Studies; International Studies; and Global and Historical Studies. Her research projects in Iran, France, the UK, and the United States have focused on the formation of gendered norms, ideas about sexuality, and most recently on the "crisis" of refugees in Europe. Among many other topics, she has conducted research on creativity and art in political protest in Iran and across the Middle East; a gendered reading of visual politics of the body emerging from contemporary Iranian protest scene; alternative sexualities and lifestyles among young Iranians in the US; spatial claims to the city, the notion of trespass as resistance to urban violence among a category called "runaway daughters" in Tehran; contemporary trends in cosmetic surgeries, shifting ideals of masculinities, femininities, and beauty in Tehran. Her writing on Iran aims to diversify representation of the people, while remaining critical of strategies that exclude “others

Research Interest

History and Anthropology, Peace Studies