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Farzaneh Hemmasi is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD from Columbia University and has published extensively in the field of music studies. Her award-winning monograph, 'Tehrangeles Dreaming: Intimacy and Imagination in Southern California’s Iranian Pop Music', explores the cultural industries of Los Angeles-based post-revolutionary Iranian expatriates, earning her the inaugural Hamid Naficy Book Award. Hemmasi's research interests include the transnational circulation of political music and poetry, as well as diaspora and homeland narratives. Her work has appeared in notable journals such as the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Popular Music, and Ethnomusicology. Hemmasi also engages in community-based research and has undertaken various ethnographic projects addressing sound and diversity in Toronto, particularly in the Kensington Market neighbourhood. Her teaching and research have received support from prestigious grants like the Connaught Community Partnership Research grant and the Insight Development Grant from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council.
Department of Sociology