Feeding Iran is an ethnography of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran that focuses on Basiji families, members of Iran’s voluntary paramilitary organization. It is the first account of these state supporters outs..
Rose Wellman
Rose Wellman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn who specializes in Iran, the Middle East, and its diaspora. Her book, Feeding Iran: Shi’i Families and the Making of an Islamic Republic, draws from ethnographic research in Iran between 2007 and 2010 to explore how everyday family life and piety are linked to state power. Wellman’s work contributes to the study of kinship and relatedness, Islam, material religion, food, and nation-making. She is currently conducting research on Arab Americans in metro Detroit, focusing on the region’s vibrant Shi‘i Iraqi community.