Shahla Talebi
Fellow, Sociocultural Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Shahla Talebi is a scholar of religions, 2006 Newcombe Fellow, and Associate Professor at Arizona State University. A native of Iran, she lived in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.
Shahla Talebi
Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Shahla Talebi is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. She earned her bachelor’s degree from UC Berkeley in sociocultural anthropology and her master’s and doctoral degrees also in anthropology from Columbia University. Currently, she is on the faculty of religious studies and the anthropology of religion of the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. Her book,Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran (2011, Stanford University Press), won the 2011 Outstanding Academic Title Award given by Choice Magazine, and was the co-winner (Gold Medal) of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards, among other awards.. Dr. Talebi’s work has also appeared in various academic journals, including Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, and edited books. Her article on revolutions in recent Iranian history was published in the Oxford Handbook series in July 2018. She was the 2017-2018 Anthony E. Kaye fellow at National Humanities Center fellow where she worked on her book about contested memories of martyrdom in post-revolutionary Iran
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