Pamela Karimi is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She received her PhD in history and theory of art and architecture from MIT in 2009. Her primary field of research is art, architecture, and visual culture of the modern Middle East.

"Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran is an ambitious book. Mining a rich archive of architectural plans, leftist pamphlets, US Department of Education photos and documents, visual art, artists’ catalogs, and much more, Karimi constructs a history of modern Iran from below or, better yet, from within. Within the intricate and dynamic interiors of Iranian homes, Karimi finds ever-shifting configurations of gender, class, intimacy, family, and citizenship, changes that modern secular and religious governments have certainly influenced but not determined." - Catherine Sameh, University of California, Irvine, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (March 2019)"Pamela Karimi’s Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran is a thought-provoking examination of the intersection of domestic architecture, consumerism, and the social transformation of taste in twentieth-century Iran." - Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review"A really good social analysis can take a seemingly minor issue and use it as a lens through which to examine multiple aspects of a complex system. Pamela Karimi has done exactly that in her impressively researched study of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran....this is a fascinating and wideranging study, exemplary in the breadth and depth of scholarship Karimi has brought to bear. It will be enormously valuable to anyone interested in issues of urbanization, gender roles, experiences of modernity and modernization, consumer culture and aesthetics, and Iranian social and material history. Karimi is one of the first scholars to consider the role of consumer culture in making the Iranian experience of modernity ... but this book will not only be of interest to scholars of Iran." -Norma Claire Moruzzi, Middle East Report (Winter 2015)

• Introduction  1. The Hovel, the Harem, and the Hybrid Furnishing 2. Renewing the Nation's Interiors 3. The Cold War  and the Economies of Desire and Domesticity 4. Selling and Saving Piety in Modern Dwellings 5. Gendered Spaces and Bodies out of Place Epilogue: At Home in the Islamic Republic

Pamela Karimi is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. She received her PhD in history and theory of art and architecture from MIT in 2009. Her primary field of research is art, architecture, and visual culture of the modern Middle East.

"Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran is an ambitious book. Mining a rich archive of architectural plans, leftist pamphlets, US Department of Education photos and documents, visual art, artists’ catalogs, and much more, Karimi constructs a history of modern Iran from below or, better yet, from within. Within the intricate and dynamic interiors of Iranian homes, Karimi finds ever-shifting configurations of gender, class, intimacy, family, and citizenship, changes that modern secular and religious governments have certainly influenced but not determined." - Catherine Sameh, University of California, Irvine, Journal of Middle East Women's Studies (March 2019)"Pamela Karimi’s Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran is a thought-provoking examination of the intersection of domestic architecture, consumerism, and the social transformation of taste in twentieth-century Iran." - Talinn Grigor, Brandeis University, Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review"A really good social analysis can take a seemingly minor issue and use it as a lens through which to examine multiple aspects of a complex system. Pamela Karimi has done exactly that in her impressively researched study of Domesticity and Consumer Culture in Iran....this is a fascinating and wideranging study, exemplary in the breadth and depth of scholarship Karimi has brought to bear. It will be enormously valuable to anyone interested in issues of urbanization, gender roles, experiences of modernity and modernization, consumer culture and aesthetics, and Iranian social and material history. Karimi is one of the first scholars to consider the role of consumer culture in making the Iranian experience of modernity ... but this book will not only be of interest to scholars of Iran." -Norma Claire Moruzzi, Middle East Report (Winter 2015)

• Introduction  1. The Hovel, the Harem, and the Hybrid Furnishing 2. Renewing the Nation's Interiors 3. The Cold War  and the Economies of Desire and Domesticity 4. Selling and Saving Piety in Modern Dwellings 5. Gendered Spaces and Bodies out of Place Epilogue: At Home in the Islamic Republic