Rose Wellman

Rose Wellman is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She specializes in the Iran, the Middle East, and its diaspora. Wellman is the author of Feeding Iran: Shi`i Families and the Making of the Islamic Republic and the co-editor of New Directions of Spiritual Kinship: Sacred Ties across the Abrahamic Religions. Wellman is currently conducting research with Arab Americans, focusing on metro Detroit’s vibrant Iraqi community. She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Arab American Studies, Middle East Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at UM-Dearborn as well as the Center for Arab American Narratives at ACCESS. Wellman's courses cover subjects as diverse as the Middle East, religion, kinship and marriage, food, and Islam.