Shahram Khosravi

is professor of Anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include anthropology of Iran, forced displacement, border studies, and temporality. Khosravi is the author of several books such as : Young and Defiant in Tehran (2008); The Illegal Traveler: an auto-ethnography of borders, (2010); Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran, (2017); After Deportation: Ethnographic Perspectives, Palgrave (2017, edited volume); Waiting. A project in Conversation (2021, edited volume), Seeing Like a Smuggler (2022, edited volume), and The Gaze of the X-ray: An Archive of Violence (2024, edited volume). He started Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact. Check out his Instagram (@an_accidental_professor) and Facebook account.