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Arzoo Osanloo
CO-CONVENER
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF LAW, SOCIETIES, AND JUSTICE DIRECTOR, MIDDLE EAST CENTER UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |
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Profile
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Arzoo is a Professor at the University of Washington's Department of Law, Societies, and Justice, and Director of its Title VI Middle East Center. She holds adjunct appointments in the School of Law and Departments of Anthropology, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Women's Studies, and the Comparative Religion Program.
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Arzoo received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at Stanford University in 2002. Prior to that, she was a practicing attorney, having received a JD at The American University, Washington College of Law in 1993. As a former immigration and asylum/refugee attorney, she became concerned with the fraught but often neglected relationship between 'culture' and 'rights.
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Arzoo turned to the discipline of Cultural and Social Anthropology in order to better promote and advocate for the humanity and dignity of people in other societies -- societies which are simultaneously entrenched in domestic and international politics and law, historical relations, and are constantly changing.
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Selected Writing
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Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims’ Rights in Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020.
“Lessons from the Suffrage Movement in Iran,” Yale Law Journal - Forum on 100th Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage – the 19th Amendment Volume 129: 496-511, January 20, 2020.
“Subjecting the State to Seeing: Charity, Security, and the Dispossessed in Iran’s Islamic Republic,” in Governing Gifts: Faith, Charity, and the Security State (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series). E. James, ed., Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2019. Pp. 59-77.
“Righteous Injuries: Victim’s Rights and Offender’s Suffering in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning” in Injury and Injustice: Cultural Practices of Harm and Redress. A. Bloom, D. Engel, and M. McCann, eds., London: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Pp. 96-114.
“Framing Rights: Women and Family Law in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Iran,” New Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 5: 1-18 (2015).
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The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
“The Law Knows No Shame: On Robert Redfield’s ‘Primitive Law’ and the Persistence of Honor in Contemporary Societies,” American Anthropologist 121(3):729-733, August 2019.
“On Not Saving the Muslim Women (and Men),” Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Special Forum: “Trump’s Presidency and Middle East Women’s Studies” 13(3): 479-482, November 2017.
“Evidence, Certainty, and Doubt: Judge’s Knowledge in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning,” in Truth, Intentionality and Evidence: Anthropological Approaches to Crime and Tort. Y. Ben Hounet and D. Puccio-Den, eds., London: Routledge Press, 2017. Pp. 28-45.
“Women and Criminal Law in Post-Khomeini Iran,” in Social Change in Post-Khomeini Iran. M. Monshipouri, ed., London: Hurst Publishers, 2016. Pp. 91-112.
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