Email: fa1944@hunter.cuny.edu
Office: Room 522 Hunter North
Phone: 212-772-4246
Fall 2024 Office Hours: Th 4-5:30pm
Farzad Amoozegar is a medical/psychological anthropologist and an ethnomusicologist. He is an assistant Professor in the Music Department at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Farzad’s research examines the intersections of Islamic philosophy—particularly its theological and mystical dimensions—with anthropological approaches to death, disability and veteran studies, grief and loss, phenomenology and intersubjectivity, the ethics of care, political violence, health, and sound and sensory studies.
Farzad’s current book project, Being with the Dead: Iranian Veterans and the Enduring Bond with their Fallen Comrades, is an ethnographic study of five paraplegic Iranian veterans of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War. Among his journal publications are: Ethos, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Anthropological Quarterly and Anthropology and Humanism. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1989-0085
Farzad offers a range of undergraduate and graduate courses in music, ethnomusicology and anthropology. He is also part of the Hunter Honors Program, where he teaches two courses: “Ethics and Biotechnology,” and “Mind, Medicine, and Culture.” He currently is supervising a number of MA theses at Hunter College and Ph.D. dissertations at the Graduate Center.
He spent his formative years in Iran playing the tār and setār before immigrating to Canada at the age of twelve. He studied under master musicians Mohammad-Rezā Lotfī, Hooshang Zarif, and Ata-Allāh Jankouk. He has performed in diverse venues across North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Ph.D. Anthropology (UCLA); Ph.D. Ethnomusicology (UCLA); M.A. Anthropology (UBC); M.A. in Musicology (UBC); and B.A. at the University of Toronto.
