Researcher, Teacher, Consultant, Translator
mshiva1950@gmail.com
Ph.D., Socio-Cultural Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle, 1993.
Areas of Interest
- Social Research Methods
- Intercultural Communication
- International Education
- Historical and Contemporary Ethnology of the Middle East, Caucasus, and Central Asia
- Historical and Contemporary Ethnology of the U.S.
- Tribalism, Ethnicity and Nationalism; Ritual Anthropology of Religion; Medical Anthropology
- Anthropology of Democracy; Museums Studies; Visual Studies; Urban Studies; Pastoral Nomadism; Art and Anthropology
- Ethnography of Paleoanthropological and Archaeological Knowledge Production
Courses Taught:
Undergraduate Courses (regular, hybrid, and online)
- Cultural Anthropology
- Survey of Anthropology
- Anthropology of American Life
- Comparative Religion
- Religion and Culture
- Cultural Tensions and Encounters
- Intercultural Communication
- Anthropology of Iranian Tribes
- Rural Sociology of Iran; Urban Sociology of Iran;
- Medical Anthropology
- Culture and Agricultural Extension.
Graduate Courses
- Social Research Methods
- Qualitative Social Research Methods
- Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives
- Tribalism, Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
- Ritual, Power and Politics in the Middle East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
- Globalization, Culture and Power: Anthropological Perspectives
- Islam and Politics in the Middle East, Caucasus and Central Asia
Fellowships
- 2012 Fulbright Scholarship. Tbilisi, Georgia, Tbilisi State U.
- 2005-2006 Fulbright Scholarship. Azerbaijan. Khazar U.
- 2002 NEH Summer Institute on an Integrated History of Eurasia,
Harvard U., Cambridge, MA.
- 1999 NEH Summer Seminar on the Literature of Islamic Mysticism,
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.
Professional Experience
- 1995-Present Researcher, Teacher, and Consultant
- 2014-Spring Visiting Faculty, GIPA (Georgian Institute of Public Affairs)
- 1995 -2013 Adjunct Instructor, Community Colleges in the Greater Seattle Area (intermittently)
- 2012-Spring Visiting Fulbright Faculty, Tbilisi State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
- 2010-Spring Visiting Faculty, Caucasus University, Tbilisi, Georgia.
- 2009 (Fall) Visiting Faculty, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan
- 2005-2006 Visiting Fulbright Faculty, Khazar University, Baku, Azerbaijan.
- 1998-Spring Adjunct Faculty, Dept. of Anthropology, U. of Washington, Seattle, WA
- 1985 Visiting Researcher, Dept. of Population Studies, Shiraz University, Iran
- 1978-88 Researcher and Instructor, Mazandaran University. Iran
Sites
www.taamaat.com
www.qashqai.net
