Somayeh Karimi

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Date & Place of Birth:

1980, Tehran

Language:

Persian (Mother tongue), English (advance), German (Intermediate), Arabic (Elementary)

Email:

s.karimmi@gmail.com, s.karimi@ihcs.ac.ir.

Career background:

Assistant Professor at Asian Cultural Documentation Center for UNESCO, in Institute for Humanities and Cultural Studies- since 2017.

 

Higher Education & Post-graduate Studies:

·         PhD in Cultural Anthropology

2009 – 2013 Faculty of Philosophy, on scholarship of Goethe University (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

·         Master of Arts in Anthropology

                                                           2003 - 2005 Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University

·         Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

1998 - 2002 Faculty of Social Sciences, Tehran University

 

  Research projects& Studies

2018Researcher in the project "Interdisciplinary study on Ecological Pollution of Rivers based on Corporate Social Responsibility concept in Rasht with anthropological, management and microbiological approach", carried out by Anthropological Research Center, Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute.

2013Project director and researcher in "Documentation and pathological study of activities of Institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults", Institute for the intellectual development of children and young adults, Tehran.

 

2008Researcher in the project of "Structuralizing the strict identity of Tehran", carried out by Manistar Parseh engineering consultancy company.

2007Researcher in the project "Anthropological study of Bam earthquake", carried out by Anthropological Research Center, Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2006Project Director and researcher of "Economic Anthropology: Tehran's Bazaar" Anthropological research Centre, Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran

 

2006Project director and researcher "Iranian Anthropology (Selected Essays, Books and Films in Iran)", Anthropological research Centre; Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2005Researcher in project of "Child Abuse in Iran" project carried out by UNICEF, Orumieh, Iran

2005Project Director of "Chronological Lexicography of Iranian Rituals; Religious Ethnicities in Iran" Anthropological research Centre, Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

 

2005 Researcher in "A Study in the Possibilities of Higher Education Development based on Ethnical-National Identity Diversities" project carried out by Ministry of Science, Research and Technology.

 

2004 Researcher in "Ethnic-Communal Bazaars in Iran" project carried out by Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran.

Publications:

  

Books (as author)

 

2013Ethnicity and Normativity, An anthropological study of normativity in daily life of Gilak people in north of Iran (PhD Thesis),UvA Proefschriften (Amsterdam University Press).

 

2009 Sweet Apples of Kabul; A Study on Afghan Children In Iran, (co-writer: Bahram Rahimi) Afkar publication(in three languages: Persian,  English and Pashtu).

 

2008 Economic Anthropology: Tehran's Bazaar, Afkar publication and Anthropological Research Center.

 

   Books (as editor)

 

2017Norouz, cultural diversity and culture of peace (collection of articles on Norouz as a peace culture), Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization publication, Tehran.

 

2015 Norouz ,peace and life (collection of articles on Norouz as a peace culture), Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization publication, Tehran.

 

Articles

2017 "Folk medicine, rural Belief and retention of newborn in Iran", In: The journal of research on history of medicine, with M. Rakhsha (co-author). Vol.6, No.1,Suppl. Pp.91-98.

2017 "Rural Community and the symbolic meaning of food", in: Food in the mirror of culture. Alireza Hassanzadeh (ed.) Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization publication.

2016 “A critique on feminism paradigm”, in: Analysis of patient stone. Karen Miller (ed.) Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization publication.

2014 “Cooking as an art: from nature to culture”, in Cultural journal of Korsi. Vol.14, pp.68-71,(in Persian).

2012"Meaning, culture and social life", in Journal of Anthropological researches of Iran, Vol.2, Issue 4 (in Persian).

2011 "The Challenge of discourses: Normative orders and ethnicity", in International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.9, Issue 8, pp.83-94 (in English).

2010, "Textualization and Ethnic identity" in: International Journal of the Humanities, Vol.8, Issue 2, pp.359-366 (in English).

2010, "The Formation of Non – State Normative Orders and the Rituals of Pilgrimage in Iran", in:International Journal of interdisciplinary social sciences, Vol.5, Issue 3, pp.287-298. Co-authored with Alireza Hassanzadeh (in English).

2008, "Women Anthropologists" in:Memories of Iranian Anthropologists,Ed.J.Moshiri.Afkarpublication,Tehran (in Persian).

2008, "Methodology ,ethnic memory and anthropology" in:Memories of Iranian Anthropologists ,Ed. J.Moshiri. Afkarpublication,Tehran (in Persian).

2008, "Applied anthropology and answering to society problems" in: Journal of Karagah,Tehran, (in Persian).

2008, "Food and the system of exchange" in:Food and culture,ed.A.Hassanzadeh.Mahrnamag,Tehran (in Persian).

2006, "Sacred Economy", in: Journal of Research Centre, Cultural Heritage, Handicraftand Tourism Organization, Tehran (in Persian).

2006, "Culture of poverty and crime" ,in  Crime and Culture ,ed.Q.Biabani,Karagah Publication, pp27-86.Tehran, (in Persian).

2006, "Escape and Crime" with Alireza Hassanzadeh, in: Journal of Karagah, criminal anthropology, Tehran (in Persian).

 

Conferences, Seminars & colloquiums:

2015 Participating in seminar on “Applied Anthropology and CSR” by presenting the paper Experience of CSR in Asian countries, in Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization Tehran, October 2015.

 

2014 Participating in national conference on “cultural and social researches in Iran”, by presenting the paper Applied Anthropology and Sustainable Development, in Society of Iranian sociology, December 2014.

2014 Participating in national conference on “Anthropological aspects of Ashoura culture” by presenting the paper Moharram  mourning in Africa, in Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization Tehran, January 2014.

2014 Participating in national conference on “Anthropological aspects of Ashoura culture” by presenting the paper Anthropological study of Tekye Sadat,in Cultural Heritage, Handicraft and Tourism Organization Tehran, January 2014

2014 Participating in seminar on "Norouz from Anthropological and mythological perspectives", published in Parpirar (social-cultural studies journal), Vol. 1,March (In Persian).

2011Participating in International conference on new directions in Humanities, at Universidad de Granada by presenting the article: Formal Normative Orders and Limitation of Experience in Iran.a co-written work with Alireza Hassanzadeh. 8-11 June 2011.

2010 Participating in International conference on new directions in Humanities, UCLA, by presenting the paper Textualization and ethnic Identity. Los Angeles,29June-2 July 2010.

2010 Participating in the Interdisciplinary Social Sciencesconference,by presenting the paper:"Pilgrimage rituals in Iran", co-authored with AlirezaHassanzadeh,2-5August 2010 Cambridge University.

2009 Weekly colloquium of excellent cluster of normative orders, Goethe University, by presenting the paper "Ethnicity and the state in the Islamic republic of Iran", Frankfurt am Main, 28 May.

 

 

Membership& social activity:

 

2016 Member of scientific board of conference "Anthropology of Death and Life", by Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2016 Member of scientific board of conference "Norouz: Peace Heritage", by Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2015-2018, Selected and active as a member of Yousef Abad neighborhood Council and member of board of trustees in 4^thpublic election of Tehran neighborhoods Council, March 2015.

2014 Member of scientific board of conference "Heritage of Narrative", by Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2013 Member of scientific board of conference "Anthropological Aspects of Ashura Culture", by Cultural and Handicraft Research Institute, Tehran.

2010, Selected as an associated editors for The international journal of new directions in humanities, Vol.8.

Since 2001, associate member of Anthropological Society of Iran (NGO).

2001 Member of implementation committee of  Lore Culture National Conference, Tehran University.

 

                                                                                             Teaching courses:

2017-2018 Course name: Cultural Anthropology of Iran. University of SooreMehr, one semester, Tehran.

2014-2016 Course name: Cultural Anthropology of Iran.  University of SooreMehr, four semesters, Tehran.

2015 Course name: Cultural Anthropology, University of Allameh Tabatabaee, one semester, Tehran.

 

Awarded and Scholarship:

2009, Selected for PhD Scholarship by Cluster of Excellence, Formation of Normative Orders, at Goethe University.

2002, Selected in an exchange student project between Japan and Iran by Japan embassy in Tehran.