Rose Wellman

Dr. Rose Wellman is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her research focuses on Iran and the Middle East, with expertise in ethnography, Islamophobia, and the intersection of religion and state power. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia (2014) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University's Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies (2014–2017).

Her work includes 15 months of ethnographic fieldwork in Iran, leading to her forthcoming book Feeding Iran: Shi'i Families and the Making of an Islamic Republic. She co-edited New Directions of Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions (2017) with Todne Thomas and Asiya Malik. Dr. Wellman’s research challenges Islamophobic narratives by emphasizing lived experiences and ordinary aspirations in globalized contexts.

Her lecture series at Eastern New Mexico University (2021) highlighted her commitment to public scholarship, addressing anti-Muslim racism through ethnographic analysis.