She received her Ph.D. in social cultural anthropology from Columbia University. Her research interests include questions of self-sacrifice and martyrdom, violence, memory, trauma, death, burial, funerary rituals, commemoration and memorialization or their banning, religion, revolution, and nation-state in contemporary Iran. Talebi’s manuscript entitled When God Cried: Death, Madness and Survival in Iranian Political Prisons is forthcoming by Stanford University Press. return to top