Roxanne Varzi is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of California at Irvine and a Senior Visiting Fellow at St Antony.s College, Oxford. She has a PhD in anthropology from Columbia University and was the first person since the Islamic Revolution to be awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to do original research in Iran (2000). She was a Woodrow Wilson Post- Doctoral Fellow at New York University.s International Center for Advanced Studies and most recently a lecturer at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, her book Visionary States: An Ethnographic Journey through Post-Revolution Iran is forthcoming with Duke University Press.