Organizers
The Iranian Ethnomusicology Network is a community dedicated to connecting scholars and students both inside and outside of Iran who are engaged in the study of Iranian music. Our goal is to foster collaboration and exchange within the field of ethnomusicology by providing a platform for sharing knowledge, resources, and research. We organize a range of activities, including talks, presentations, workshops, and reading groups, aimed at advancing the academic study of Iranian music. Through these initiatives, we strive to introduce and share valuable academic resources, facilitating intellectual growth and professional development within the community.
Armaghan Fakhraeirad
Armaghan is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research, Sounding Port-Oil Encounters: Music, Memory, and Infrastructure on the Persian Gulf Coast, Iran, explores how port and oil infrastructures have shaped the musical traditions and sonic memories of Iran’s Persian Gulf cities. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Bushehr, Abadan, and Khorramshahr, it examines how music reflects legacies of war, migration, cosmopolitanism, and Black slavery, situating these traditions within the Indian Ocean world. Before pursuing her PhD, Armaghan earned an MA in ethnomusicology from the Tehran University of Arts. Her dissertation analyzed the revival of Iranian folk music in relation to socio-political movements before and after the Islamic Revolution.
Behrang Nikaeen
Behrang Nikaeen is a Ph.D. candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Alberta. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Azad University, Iran (2011), and a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from the University of Tehran (2017). Since 2015, Behrang has conducted ethnographic research in the Azerbaijan region of Iran, focusing on the Azerbaijani ashiq bardic genre. His work has been published in journals, including Popular Music and Society (2024), Journal of Folklore Research (2020), Musicologist (2018), The Journal of Fine Arts at the University of Tehran (2018), Mahoor Music Quarterly (2017).
