3 days ago - Suspended professor Tamar Shirinian is asking a federal judge to pause firing proceedings against her and order the University of Tennessee at Knoxville to restore her faculty and tenure-track statuses as her ongoing lawsuit against UT plays out.

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Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, M.A., Cultural Anthropology, Women's certificate (2016) Bio BA, University of California, Berkeley; PhD, Duke University

November 23, 2025 - At 2:04 p.m., Zomchick provided Robert Hinde, interim executive dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, with the letter notifying Shirinian she would be placed on administrative leave pending termination. “I am sharing with you the letter notifying Dr. Tamar Shirinian that she has been placed on administrative leave pending termination,” Zomchick said.

November 3, 2025 - Our letter expressing concern about the capricious and hasty suspension of Assistant Professor Tamar Shirinian of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and your decision to terminate her for remarks she made ...

October 30, 2025 - Assistant professor Tamar Shirinian is suing the University of Tennessee at Knoxville for suspending her over a social media comment she made criticizing conservative political activist Charlie Kirk after he was assassinated.

On Monday, September 15, 2025, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), Chancellor Donde Plowman announced termination proceedings against Dr. Tamar Shirinian, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, for a social media post ...

October 3, 2025 - The professor, Tamar Shirinian, was placed on administrative leave after her comment was shared widely on social media by conservative activist Robby Starbuck.

October 1, 2025 - Tamar Shirinian, the UT assistant professor who received notice of termination after her Sept. 14 social media comment regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk, has submitted a letter of appeal

September 22, 2025 - The University of Tennessee at Knoxville is in the process of firing Tamar Shirinian after a comment she made about the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

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Please join the University of Minnesota Anthropology Department for our 2025 Sociocultural Anthropology Colloquium, where Dr. Tamar Shirinian of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will be presenting “The Homosexual and the Oligarch: Perverse Figurations and Social Reproduction”.

Tamar Shirinian is Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

September 15, 2025 - Tamar Shirinian, a faculty member at the University of Knoxville, is set to be terminated over a Facebook comment she made about Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot on September 9.

October 29, 2025 - Anthropological Archaeology Anthropological archaeology is the study of humanity from deep antiquity to the recent past. Biological Anthropology Biological Anthropology is devoted to the study of biological history, evolutionary relationships, and diversity that characterizes the human species.

October 27, 2025 - Tamar Shirinian’s appointment as faculty at the University of Tennessee. Her remarks on her personal Facebook account regarding the surviving family members of Charlie Kirk may have caused offense and for this she has amply apologized.

December 12, 2024 - Tamar Shirinian is a cultural anthropologist who is interested in the relationships between gender, sexuality, nationalism, political-economy, and social reproduction and how these are experienced, imagined, and felt and especially in the ...

September 15, 2025 - Assistant anthropology professor Tamar Shirinian posted the comment in response to a post about Kirk's killing. "The world is better off without him in it," her comment said.