Pedram Khosronejad is a Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He obtained his PhD at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. His research interests include cultural and social anthropology, the anthropology of death and dying, visual anthropology, visual piety, devotional artefacts, and religious material culture, with a particular interest in Iran, Persianate societies and the Islamic world. He is the editor of several forthcoming publications: War in Iranian Cinema (I.B.Tauris); Women's Rituals and Ceremonies in Islamic Societies (C.I.U. and I.B.Tauris); and Unburied Memories: Martyrs' Grave Photographs and Funerary Memorial Objects (special issue of the Journal of Visual Anthropology on Iran). He is also chief editor of the Journal of Anthropology of the Middle East and Central Eurasia.