Research Focus Areas

Short Biography

Jasamin Kashanipour has been a lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna since 2018. She completed her doctorate in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the same university in 2016. Prior to that, she earned a Master’s degree in Education from the State University of New York in Buffalo (NY, USA) and a Bachelor’s degree in Pure Mathematics from the Teacher Training University in Tehran (Iran).

Her research interests include body, art, landscape, and educational anthropology, as well as visual culture. Artistic practices and forms of expression in diverse contexts and lifeworlds are a key focus of her work. She engages intensively with art-based and experimental research methods, in particular ethnography and creative forms of ethnographic practice and representation. In her field research, she experiments with drawing, among other things, and develops approaches and concepts as to how this practice can be used as a form of ethnographic description.

In her habilitation project entitled ‘Homo ludens in the Lecture Hall: Possibilities and Limits of Creative University Didactics in Teaching Social Science Theories and Methods’, she explores alternative forms of teaching. As a trained anthropologist and educational scientist, she examines playful and dramaturgical approaches to creative university didactics in social and cultural anthropology. These concepts are also applied in her courses, which simultaneously form the central empirical field of her habilitation research.

Webseite: http://jasaminkashanipour.mystrikingly.com/

Publications

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-4719

• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2025. “Caught in the Labyrinth of Kashan: An Ethnography of Getting Lost.” Anthropology and Humanism 50 (1):    http://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.70003
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2024.  “Looking for the Margin: An Ethnography of Gradualness.” In Experiments in Worldly Ethnography, edited by Melissa Nolas, Rachael Stryker, Christos Varvantakis, 213–229. London & New York: Routledge.
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2023. “Homo ludens forscht im Felde: Stolpersteine als inspirierende Kraft ethnographischer Arbeit.” In Qualitative Methoden in der Forschungspraxis: Perspektiven, Erfahrungen und Anwendungsfelder, Band II, edited by Jasmin Donlic, 32–48. Opladen: Verlag Barbara Budrich.
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2023. “Entgrenzungen: Leiberfahrungen als Impulse für die ethnographische Bildungsforschung.” In Erfahrung bildet? Eine Kontroverse, edited by Iris Laner, Hans Karl Peterlini, 170–183. Beltz Juventa.
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2021. “The Third Figure: The Creation of Intersubjectivity in Ethnographic Drawing.” Anthropology and Humanism 46 (2): 266–278.   https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12339
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2021. “Narratives of Urban Life: An Anthropological Study of Artification as a Form of Critique.” In Art in Urban Space, edited by Tamás Juhász, 167–188. Budapest and Paris: L’Harmattan.
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2021. “The Gradual Gaze: Drawing as a Practice of Ethnographic Description.” Anthropology and Humanism 46 (1): 81–94.     https://doi.org/10.1111/anhu.12325
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2019. “Spiel als Theorie, Theorie als Spiel: Probehandelnde Annäherungen an kultur- und sozialanthropologische Themen.” Mitteilungen der Anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien, Band 149: 195–206. https://uscholar.univie.ac.at/view/o:1063618   ISSN 0373-5656
  English title: Homo Ludens: The Playful Human in the Lecture Hall.
• Kashanipour, Jasamin. 2016. “Seeing and Being Seen: An Anthropological Study with Life Drawing Models,” Unp. Doctoral diss., University of Vienna, Austria.

Conference talks & workshops

• 2023 Reviewing Papers for 2024 Conference “Dismantling Racial Injustice and Constructing Educational Possibilities: A Call to Action”, American Educational Research Association, USA.
• 2022 Mitinitiatorin des Konferenzpanels “Creative Ethnography” mit Univ.-Prof. Dietmar Larcher, International Conference: Vienna Anthropology Days (VANDA), Vienna, Austria.                     
• 2020 Reviewing Papers for 2021 Conference “Accepting Educational Responsibility”, American Educational Research Association, USA.
• 2019 Paper “Artification as a Form of Critique in Contemporary Societies”, International Conference “Arts and the City”, Károli Gáspár University & Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest.
• 2019 Paper “The Imitator, the Imitated, and the Artwork: Mimesis within a Triangular Relationship”, Somló Bódog Association, Hungarian National Museum, Budapest.
• 2018 Paper “Sensing the Invisible: A Deliberate Bodily Mimesis and a Methodological Approach to Attentive Thinking”, Forschungswerkstatt zu affektiven Methodologien, Universität Wien.
• 2016 Mitinitiatorin des Konferenzpanels “The Art of Slowing Down” mit Dr. Battaglia, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Mailand.                     
• 2016 Paper “Sensing the Perceiving: An Anthropology of Aesthetics”, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Mailand.
• 2016 Paper “The Performing Body: An Ethnographic Field Study with Life Drawing Model”, International Sociological Association (ISA), Wien.         
• 2016 EU-Iran cultural relations, Expertenvortrag & Diskussion, More Europe: external cultural relations, Brüssel
• 2015 Paper “Slowing Down the Ethnographer’s Gaze: Drawing as a Practice of Ethnographic Description”, Rencontres Annuelles d’Ethnographie de l’EHESS, Paris
• 2015 Paper “Movement in Stillness: An Anthropological Study with Life Drawing Models”, Symposium “Beyond Perception”, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
• 2015 Mitinitiatorin des Workshops “Movement as Knowledge and Practice” mit Dr. Marion Wettstein, 10th Vienna Anthropology Days, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien.
• 2012 “Seeing and Being Seen: An Ethnographic Field Study on Life Drawing Models”, Posterpräsentation “Tag des SOWI-Doktorats”, Universität Wien.