Morteza Hashemi

Contact

• workRoom B3 Law and Social Sciences building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 74 87404
• Morteza.Hashemi@nottingham.ac.uk
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Morteza-Hashemi-6

Biography

I am an Assistant Professor in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. I received my PhD in sociology from the University of Warwick in 2016. Before moving to Nottingham, I worked as a lecturer at the University of Bristol (2020-21) and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in medical anthropology at the University of Edinburgh (2017-20). My first monograph, entitled Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age, was shortlisted for the BSA's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize and won the International Farabi Award in 2017. At Nottingham, I teach UG and PG modules on sociological theories, philosophy of research, 'race, ethnicity and colonial modernity', as well as sociology of science and technology. From September 2023, I am Director of the Identities, Citizenship, Equalities and Migration Centre (ICEMiC) at the School of Sociology and Social Policy.

Expertise Summary

My research and teaching spans these fields:

• Sociological theory
• Ethnicity, identity and displacement
• Sociology of religion and activism
• Sociology of science and technology
• Medical sociology

Generally, my publications could be put into four categories: global social theory, post-secularism and community activism, sociology of blood and citizenship, and sociology of start-up environments. I am currently working on two monographs. One is the outcome of my four-year-long study of blood donation campaigns in the UK and the other is a theoretical attempt to retrieve a neo-Khaldunian sociology for the twenty first century. I would be pleased to hear from any colleagues or students who are working on related themes.

Recent Publications

• MORTEZA HASHEMI, ed., 2023. Religion in Fortress Europe: Perspectives on Belief, Citizenship and Identity in a Time of Polarized Politics 1st. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2022. Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?:: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood Identities. 29(6), 846–862
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2020. Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood:: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land HAU:: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 10(2),
• JOHN READER, PETAR JANDRIĆ, MICHAEL A. PETERS and MARCIN GARBOWSKI, 2020. Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion Postdigital Science and Education. 934–965

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Feedback and Consultation Hours:

Tuesday: 2-3pm Thursday: 2-3pm

(School of Sociology and Social Policy, Room B3)

• MORTEZA HASHEMI, ed., 2023. Religion in Fortress Europe: Perspectives on Belief, Citizenship and Identity in a Time of Polarized Politics 1st. Bloomsbury Publishing.
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2022. Could we use blood donation campaigns as social policy tools?:: British Shi’i ritual of giving blood Identities. 29(6), 846–862
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2020. Andrew’s white cross, Hussain’s red blood:: Being Scottish Shia in Brexit’s no-man’s-land HAU:: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 10(2),
• JOHN READER, PETAR JANDRIĆ, MICHAEL A. PETERS and MARCIN GARBOWSKI, 2020. Enchantment - Disenchantment-Re-Enchantment: Postdigital Relationships between Science, Philosophy, and Religion Postdigital Science and Education. 934–965
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2019. Bedouins of Silicon Valley:: A neo-Khaldunian approach to sociology of technology The Sociological Review. 67(3), 536-551
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2018. What Does It Mean To Be a Progressive Intellectual after the Refugee Crisis in Europe?. In: ULRICH SCHMIEDEL and GRAEME SMITH, eds., Religion in the European Refugee Crisis Palgrave Macmillan. 281-296
• MORTEZA HASHEMI and AMIR R. BAGHERPOUR, 2018. A Theory of Evolution of Religious Knowledge in a Post-Revolutionary Iran: And a New Frontier for Sociology of Knowledge. In: MIKAEL STENMARK, STEVE FULLER and ULF ZACKARIASSON, eds., Relativism and Post-Truth in Contemporary Society Palgrave Macmillan. 71-83
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2017. Theism and Atheism in a Post-Secular Age Palgrave.
• MORTEZA HASHEMI, 2016. A post-secular reading of public sociology Social Compass. 63(4),