Roxanne Varzi is an Iranian-born American cultural anthropologist, filmmaker, sound artist, writer, playwright, and educator.
11 Facts About Roxanne Varzi
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Roxanne Varzi is a full professor of anthropology and film and media studies at University of California, Irvine.
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Roxanne Varzi was born in 1971 in Iran, to an American mother and an Iranian father.
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Roxanne Varzi's family migrated to the United States after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, settling in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.
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Roxanne Varzi moved in 1991 to continue her education at the American University in Cairo in Cairo, Egypt, and graduated in 1993 from American University in Washington DC.
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Roxanne Varzi was the first recipient of the Fulbright award to Iran since the Iranian Revolution.
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Roxanne Varzi completed her PhD in 2002 at Columbia University for anthropology.
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From 2002 to 2004, Roxanne Varzi was an instructor of anthropology at New York University.
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Roxanne Varzi joined the University of California, Irvine in 2005, and she became a full professor of in the Department of Anthropology in 2009.
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Roxanne Varzi's second work, Plastic Flowers Never Die which is an experimental documentary on the effects of the war in Iran, and the aftermath of the war.
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Roxanne Varzi's second book, Last Scene Underground: An Ethnographic Novel of Iran is a fictional story set in Iran's Green Movement about young Iranians learning life lessons "through politics, art, and the meaning of home".