UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Los Angeles
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)
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Research Award, Department of Anthropology, 2024
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Society for Linguistic Anthropology John Gumperz Graduate Student Essay Prize, Runner-Up position, 2024
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The Laura Bassi Scholarship, 2023
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Dissertation Year Fellowship, 2023
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Research Award, Department of Anthropology, 2023
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Wenner-Gren Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, 2022
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Dr. Harris/Hariri Family Funds —Mosafer Centennial Fund for Near Eastern Scholars
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Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2020
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Graduate Dean’s Scholar Award, UCLA, 2019
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Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, UCLA, 2020
Research
Book
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Editor (with Alireza Korangy, in-process)—Handbook of Caspian Languages and Linguistics, Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics.
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Editor (contracted)—A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology: Language, Culture, and Society in Homelands and the Diaspora, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics.
Journal Articles
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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
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accepted - Pride and Profit: Control over Texts, Calibration of Intertextual Gap in Persian Poetry Classes in Los Angeles. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology.
Book Chapters
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in-press - -əx- the Unexpected Passive Suffix in Gilaki Foomanati. In Handbook of Iranian Language Phonology, Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics
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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
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forthcoming - My Accent Has a Skin: Embodied Language Ideologies
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preparing- Gilaki Negation System
Ph.D. Dissertation
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“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
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2018 - “Origin of Gilaki Causative -be(ː)-”
Committee: Andrew Byrd (chair), Gregory Stump (co-chair), Mark Lauersdorf
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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).