Rate My Professor Tamar Shirin ian

Tamar Shirinian is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She received her PhD from Duke University in 2016. Prior to her appointment at the University of Tennessee, she completed a postdoctoral appointment at Millsaps College and served as a postdoctoral teaching associate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee.

Shirinian’s research focuses on social movements and revolutions, environmental anthropology, feminist and queer anthropology, transnationalism, and psychological anthropology. Her work examines diversity, inclusion, exclusion, and difference within the context of disasters and conflict, with attention to institutional logics and how ethnic, racial, and sexual differences affect access to mental health care. She is the author of the book Survival of a Perverse Nation: Morality and Queer Possibility in Armenia, published by Duke University Press in 2024, which received the 2025 Ruth Benedict Award for Outstanding Monograph from the Association for Queer Anthropology. Shirinian has published articles in journals including Feminist Formations, American Ethnologist, Gender & Society, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, and Anthropology and Humanism. She has served as co-editor of a special issue of the Armenian Review entitled Queering Armenian Studies and is working on additional book projects, including Yakhq and Other Feminisms from the Post-Second World and a co-edited volume on Armenian feminist solidarities.

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