# Seema Golestaneh

**Source**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/seema-golestaneh
**Parent**: https://anthropology.cornell.edu/grad-field-faculty

## Associate Professor

### Publications

### Books

*Unknowing and the Everyday: Sufism and Knowledge in Iran*, forthcoming with Duke University Press

### Articles

“Open Sounds, Hidden Spaces: Listening, Wandering, and Literalism in Sufi Iran,” *Journal of the American Academy of Religion*, March 2022.

‘To be Transformed into Thought Itself’: Mystical and Political Becomings in the work of Ali Shariati," *Philosophy and Global Affairs*, Spring 2022.

“Text and Contest: Theories of Secrecy and Dissimulation in the Archives of Sufi Iran” in *Sufism and Shi’ism in the Early Modern and Modern Eras*, IB Tauris, 2019.

“Women’s Religious and Social Activism in Iran” in ed. Afsaruddin, Asma, *Oxford Handbook on Islam and Women*, forthcoming.

## In the news

- [Einaudi welcomes SWANA Program](/news/einaudi-welcomes-swana-program)
- [Pulitzer Prize-winning author from Jerusalem to speak Oct. 10](/news/pulitzer-prize-winning-author-jerusalem-speak-oct-10)

## Courses - Fall 2025

- [ANTHR 2470 : Islam and Gender](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/ANTHR/2470)
- [ANTHR 3680 : Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/ANTHR/3680)
- [ANTHR 4983 : Honors Thesis Research](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/ANTHR/4983)
- [ANTHR 6680 : Islam and the Ethnographic Imagination](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/FA25/class/ANTHR/6680)

## Courses - Spring 2026

- [ANTHR 4984 : Honors Thesis Write-Up](https://classes.cornell.edu/browse/roster/SP26/class/ANTHR/4984)