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Education

UCLA, Ph.D. Linguistic Anthropology (Los Angeles, CA)                                                                        2018-present
University of Kentucky, M.A. Linguistics (Lexington, KY)                                                                         2016-2018

University of Kentucky, LSA Summer School (Lexington, KY)                                                                   2017

University of Allameh Tabataba’i, M.A. Old Iranian Languages (Tehran, Iran)                                            2011-2014

Awards-Grants (selected)

  1. Research Award, Department of Anthropology, 2024

  2. Society for Linguistic Anthropology John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize, second position, 2024

  3. The Laura Bassi Scholarship, 2023

  4. Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023

  5. Research Award, Department of Anthropology, 2023

  6. Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2022

  7. Dr. Harris/Hariri Family Funds —Mosafer Centennial Fund for Near Eastern Scholars

  8. Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2020

  9. Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2019

  10. Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2020

Research

Book

  • Editor (with Alireza Korangy, contracted)—Handbook of Caspian Languages and Linguistics, Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics.

  • Editor (contracted)—A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society in Homelands and the Diaspora, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics.
     

Journal Articles

  • 2023 - (with Andrew M. Byrd) The Indo-Iranian Labial-Enlarged Causative Suffix: Proto-Caspian *-āwēn-, Eastern Iranian *-(ā)u̯ai̯a-, and Indic -(ā)páya-. IEUL, Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/22125892-bja10025

  • in-prep - Pride and Profit: Control over Texts, Calibration of Intertextual Gap in Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles 


​Book Chapters

  • in-press - -əx- the Unexpected Passive Suffix in Gilaki Foomanati. In Handbook of Iranian Language Phonology, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics

  • in-press - Discursive and Practical Consciousness in Spiritual Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles. In Handbook of Persian Discourse Analysis, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics

  • forthcoming - My Accent Has a Skin: Embodied Language Ideologies

  • forthcoming - (with Gregory Stump) Gilaki Negation Morphotactics 


​Ph.D. Dissertation

  • “Language Ideologies and Affects: An Ethnography of Spiritual Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles”
    Committee: Drs. Norma Mendoza-Denton (chair), Paul Kroskrity (co-chair), Purnima Mankekar, Domenico Ingenito


​M.A. Thesis

  • 2018 - “Origin of Gilaki Causative -be(ː)-”

    Committee: Andrew Byrd (chair), Gregory Stump (co-chair), Mark Lauersdorf

  • 2014 - “Inchoative Aspect in Gilaki”
    Committee: Mojtaba Monshizadeh (chair), Mohammad Dabir-Moghaddam (co-chair)  

Research

Conferences

 

2024c                 
Connoisseur and Sommelier: Social Authenticity and Societal Alterity Among Iranians in Los Angeles. CLIC GSA Conference,  Los Angeles (canceled)

2024b                
Unsettling Identities: Erfān and the Iranian Diaspora's Journey Beyond National and Ethnoreligious Boundaries, AIS Annual Confernce, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico

2024a                 
Enregisterment and Indexicality: Identity Within Mystic Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles, LSA Annual Meeting, New York     

2022                  
Pride and Profit: An Ethnography of Spiritual Persian Poetry Assemblies in Los Angeles, MESANA, Denver, Colorado.

2019b                
Khoshsirat, Z & G. Stump. The Morphotactics of the Gilaki Negative Affix. NACIL2, Arizona

2019a                 
-əx- the Unexpected Passive Suffix in Gilaki Foomanati. NACIL2, Arizona

2018c                 
Khoshsirat, Z & A. Byrd. The Gilaki Causative Suffix -be(ː)-: Its Function and Origins. Presentation at the 30th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference

2018b                
Gili, Dailami, Tabari: A New Classification of Gilaki Language, ConCALL-3, Indiana University

2018a                 
Ethnolinguistic Evidence in Five Inchoative Verbs of Gilaki About Rice Development, ConCALL-3, Indiana University

2017b                
Grammaticalization of Inchoative Aspect in Gilaki, Central Kentucky Linguistics, Conference, February 2017

2017a                 
Diachronic Study of Two Inchoative Verbs in Gilaki, LSA Summer Institute Poster Session

 

Workshops/Professionalization/Talks

2023                  
Mendoza-Denton, Z. Khoshsirat, Natalia Casio-Lara, Cate Dark, Jester Mediano, XiaoXuan Wang. An Experiment in Mixed Reality, Co-Operative Action Lab, UCLA, Los Angeles.

2023                  
Khoshsirat, Z, Y. Goto, G. Romero & N. Ramos. UX Professionalization, Digital Humanities, UCLA, Los Angeles.

2022                  
Khoshsirat, Z, S. Castro & T. Slobe. Grants, Fellowships and Funds in Anthropology. Discourse Lab, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles.

2018                  
Geographic Information System (GIS) for ethnographic projects. Discourse Lab, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, Los Angeles.

Invited Talks

2023                  
LECS: Reconstructing Proto-Caspian Causative Suffix, Department of Linguistics, Allameh Tabataba’i University, Iran

2023                  
Semiotic Processes: The Sociality of Signs, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Semiotic Works and Ideological Positioning: How Narratives Shaped Stereotypes of Gilaks in Iran. Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Indexicality and Intersubjective Realities: How Tehranis See Northern People, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Reiteration of Indexical Model: From Edward Said’s Orientalism to Mendoza-Denton’s Hemispheric Localism, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran.

2023                  
Linguistic Anthropology: The Most Unattended Subfield of Anthropology in Iran, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Some Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in Linguistic Anthropology, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Language Ideologies and Ideological Positioning in Sociocultural Studies, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Ethnography, Fieldwork, Interview in Linguistic Anthropology: A Case Study, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Linguistic Anthropology and Gilaki, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Regimenting Signs, Rendering People Invisible, Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Linguistic Anthropology and Policy Making: Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2023                  
Language Identity: Experts Demarcation and People’s Fluid Movement: Department of Persian Language and Literature, University of Gilan, Iran

2019                  
Patterns of Negative Affix in Gilaki. Linguistics Colloquium, Department of Linguistics, California State University, Fresno (https://cah.fresnostate.edu/mesp/news-events/index.html). 

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