Danae Khorasani
Lecturer
M.A. University of California, Riverside, 2012
Expertise:
Labor and social reproduction, political economy, gender and labor, human evolution,
property and ownership, Hawai驶i/Pacific
Clark Hall 463
408-924-6545
danae.khorasani@sjsu.edu
Danae Khorasani received her PhD in 2023 and is an anthropologist whose research examines labor, social reproduction, and political economy across both human evolutionary and contemporary contexts. Her work focuses on how dominant narratives and institutional arrangements organize labor, care, ownership, and access to resources, and on how women鈥檚 labor, caregiving, and agency are often obscured within those processes. Her published work addresses women in human evolution and the sexual division of labor, as well as historic shifts in labor and land relationships in Hawai驶i. Across these projects, she asks how political-economic arrangements structure the division of labor and access to resources, and how those arrangements are reproduced and contested.
Selected Publications:
Khorasani, D盲nae G., and Sang-Hee Lee. 2025. 鈥淒emystifying the Sexual Division of
Labor: A Look from Human Evolution.鈥� In The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology,
edited by Pamela L. Geller, 171鈥�184. London: Routledge. ISBN 9781032432045
Khorasani, D盲nae G. 2023. 鈥淔ractured Ownership and the Tragedy of the Anticommons in Hawai驶i.鈥� Economic Anthropology 10(2): 223鈥�232. DOI: 10.1002/sea2.12287
Khorasani, D盲nae G., and Sang-Hee Lee. 2019. 鈥淲omen in Human Evolution Redux.鈥� In Evaluating Evidence in Biological Anthropology, edited by Cathy Willermet and Sang-Hee Lee, 11鈥�34. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781108569125.002
