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Mahmoud Keshavarz is an Associate Professor in Cultural Anthropology at Uppsala University. He holds a PhD in Interaction Design from Malmö University. His research focuses on the intersections of anthropology, design studies, and border studies—examining the materiality and technological aspects of migration and bordering processes. Keshavarz has published widely on issues related to materialities within border nation-states, including human smuggling and passport forgery, and he emphasizes decolonial approaches to knowledge generation. He has held teaching and research positions at several universities in Sweden and has been a visiting scholar at the New School in New York. Keshavarz has contributed to multiple academic journals and has been involved in various research projects related to borders and migration, including the ERC Advanced Grant project 'Out of Sight: Exploring Social (Im)perceptibility.' He is currently working on a monograph and has been a co-editor for an internationally peer-reviewed journal in design culture.
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