Ali Mozaffari

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Ali Mozaffari presenting a lecture at State Library of New South Wales in Sydney

Ali Mozaffari (Persian: علی مظفری) is an architect, scholar and writer, focused on the cultural heritage in West Asia and 20th-century Persian architecture. He is an Australian Research Council Fellow and Senior Research Fellow with the Alfred Deakin Institute at Deakin University in Melbourne.

Ali Mozaffari's scholarship "unlike most previous works on the relationship between architecture and national identity in Iran, transcends the symbolic and iconographic interpretation of architectural forms, elements and styles.

Background

Ali Mozaffari studied architecture at the University of Tehran and after receiving his MArch moved to Australia. He obtained his PhD from the University of Western Australia. His PhD dissertation was written on the idea of homeland as represented the National Museum of Iran.The research was the first ever interpretative study of the relationship between the museum, state ideologies and the idea of homeland.

Career

In 1996 Mozaffari won the first prize for Tabriz Municipality's National Competition. Since 2011 to 2013 he conducted field research in the ancient Persian site Pasargadae which resulted in an edited volume. The work was cited as an "excellent volume [that] represents and important, sophisticated, and most welcome contribution to approaching an archaeological site in Iran" in the journal Iranian Studies.

Mozaffari has participated in various international academic conferences including The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS), Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Association for Iranian Studies and etc. Mozaffari's articles have been published in journals including the International Journal of Heritage Studies and Iranian Studies.

Ali Mozaffari also regularly writes and comments on the modern political situation of Iran and the Caucasus. His articles has been published on New Eastern Europe and the English section of Radio Farda. He has been a panelist of Middle East Studies Forum on 2021 Iranian presidential election as well.

Mozaffari also has been interviewed by BBC Persian Service in various occasions as an expert in cultural heritage studies.

Books

(English)

• Forming national identity in Iran: the idea of homeland derived from ancient Persian and Islamic imaginations of place. IB Tauris, London, 2014.
• World heritage in Iran : perspectives on Pasargadae. Routledge, New York, 2016.
• Heritage movements in Asia : cultural heritage activism, politics, and identity. OCLC. February 20, 2020. ISBN 9781789204810. OCLC 1119062095. Search this book on
• Architecture development and make heritage in late 20th-century Iran. Manchester University Press, 2020.

(Persian)

• Shekldehi be Hoviyat-e Melli dar Iran (شکل دهی به هویت ملی در ایران). Shirazeh Publications, Tehran, 2021.

Book Chapter (Selected):

• Mozaffari, A. (2020). ‘Heritage Activism and the Media in Iran’ in Mozaffari, A. andJones, T. (eds), Heritage Movements in Asia: Cultural Heritage Activism, Politics andIdentity. New York.

• Mozaffari, A and Jones, T., (2020), ‘Negotiation, Strategic Action and the Productionof Heritage’ in Mozaffari, A. and Jones, T. (eds), Heritage Movements in Asia: CulturalHeritage Activism, Politics and Identity. Oxford.

• Jones, T, Mozaffari, A and Jasper, J., (2020), ‘Contestations in Heritage’, in Mozaffari,A. and Jones, T. (eds), Heritage Movements in Asia: Cultural Heritage Activism,Politics and Identity. New York.

• Mozaffari, A. (2017). ‘Tourism and Political Change: the return of the “idea of Iran”(2005-2015)’ in Butler, R and Suntikul, W. (eds.), Tourism and Political Change, Oxford: Goodfellow Publications.

• Mozaffari, A. and Westbrook, N. (2017). ‘Reclaiming Heritage through the image oftraditional habitat’ in Rico, T (ed.), The Making of Islamic Heritage: Muslim Pasts andHeritage Presents, Springer: Singapore.

• Mozaffari, A. (2016). ‘Negotiating identity: the appearance of a heritage movementin Iran’ in Stephens, J. and Kerr, T. (eds.), Indian Ocean Futures: Communities,Sustainability and Security, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

• Mozaffari, A. and Westbrook, N. (manuscript submitted, under review by publisher).‘In Search of the Authentic Modern: The Rhetoric of Architecture in Late 20th CenturyIran’ in Peripheral Modernisms: A Critical Appraisal, Pizzi, K. (ed.), Oxford: Legenda.

• Mozaffari, A. (2016). ‘Conceptualising a World Heritage Site,’ in Mozaffari, A. (ed.), World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae, Surrey.

• Mozaffari, A. and Westbrook, N. (2016). ‘The (un)finished Museum at Pasargadae’ in Mozaffari, A. (ed.), World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae, Surrey:Routledge.

• Mozaffari, A. (2007). 'Modernity and Identity: The National Museum of Iran' in KnellS. J., S. MacLeod and Watson, S. E. R. (eds.), Museum Revolutions: How Museums Change and Are Changed, London: Routledge.

• Mozaffari, A. (2007). 'The National Museum of Australia and the Australian StatusQuo' in Ostwald O. and Fleming, S. (eds.), Museum, Gallery and Cultural Architecturein Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region: Essays on Antipodean Identity, Wales: Edwin Mellen Press.

Documentary Appearance

• Taq Kasra: Wonder of Architecture (2018)

External links

• Forming National Identity in Iran: The Idea of Homeland Derived from Ancient Persian and Islamic Imaginations of Place (Book Review: Nation and Nationalism, July 2017)
• Architecture of Persia/Iran in 1970s | Presentation by Dr Ali Mozaffari ASPS Conference (Video)
• Ali Mozaffari's page on Academia

Independent sources added.

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