Her research interests span popular music, celebrity, transnational media publics, and the politics of popular culture, particularly in the Iran, the larger Middle East, and North America. She has held fellowships with the University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum and Columbia University’s Middle East Institute. Her publications have appeared in Ethnomusicology (2013), Mahoor Music Quarterly (2008), and the edited volume Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater (University of Texas Press, 2011). Farzaneh is currently writing a book on the “Tehrangeles” Iranian expatriate music industry in Los Angeles.