Persian Blue is a collection of short, fictional stories, based in modern day Tehran. Its aim is to tell the stories of the Iranian people, showing that they are separate from the regime, as well as the struggles and difficulties they face, and how those difficulties affect thei…
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The main goal of this study is to examine the characteristics of the networks of Tehrani men and women (structure, composition, and content), their effects upon the flow of resources, and the association between the structure of network and marital relationships. In addition to …
This dissertation is based on one year of anthropological field research in Paris and Tehran. It proposes an account of fashion production, commercialization, and consumption in the two cities. Starting from theories of subjectivation, this research analyzes the place of fashion…
This research aims at examining the potential role of formal private firms in low income housing provision in developing countries. This will be on the basis of policy recommendations put forward by international agencies such as the World Bank and United Nations Commission for …
This dissertation investigates identity, art, and architecture in twentieth-century Iran. Through case studies of two museums and a mosque in the capital city, Tehran, the project aims to elucidate the interdisciplinarity of identity formation and its relationship to nation buil…
After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, surprisingly, the presence of Iranian women in public spaces dramatically increased. Despite this recent change in women's presence in public spaces, Iranian women, like in many other Muslim-majority societies in the Middle East, are…
This dissertation concerns the role of urban spaces and political memories in revolutionary mobilization. The theoretical framework suggests that movements will use central urban spaces like streets and plazas to connect the contemporary movement with the memory of past politica…
This thesis considers critically the Takiyeh Dowlat, a monumental theater house with a short life of only 68 years, as a means of analyzing one approach toward modernity in Iran. Begun in 1873, it was demolished in 1946 and replaced by a national bank. In this thesis, I aim to e…
This thesis will investigate ways in which the building facade can contribute to the city by having the ability to transform and embed within itself functions that go beyond the necessities of the buildings' primary purposes. The buildings' facade therefore will serve as a mediu…
How is the middle-class Tehran home, as a site of satellite television and Internet consumption, implicated within the processes of Iranian state formation and transformation? The new media technologies of satellite television and the Internet have far-reaching societal effects.…