Pedram teaches courses in the Culture, Media, and Art tracks as well as methods courses in the Humanities programme. Currently he teaches Methods in Humanities 1 (100 level); Introduction to Design, Architecture and Urbanism (100 level); Digital Habits Digitized Lives (200 level); and Visual Culture (300 level). In the past, he has also taught the Theme Course Introduction to Cities and Cultures (100 level); Culture Lab (200 level); Urban Utopias (200 level); and Digital Anthropology (300 level). In addition to teaching, Pedram supervises capstones of students majoring in the Haumanities and runs undergraduate research projects and reading groups.

Pedram holds a PhD in Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Amsterdam (2016), a post-graduate diploma in Design-based Research in Architecture and Urbanism from the Berlage Institute (Rotterdam, 2010), and a master’s degree in Architecture and Urbanism (IUST, Iran, 2003). Pedram is a research affiliate of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) where he conducts interdisciplinary reseach that integrates cultural studies, media studies, visual culture, urban studies and architecture. Pedram is interested in questions of space, everyday life, visibility and walking. He is keen on exploring creative methods of research and education. Pedram is the author of Visual and Urban Culture in Contemporary Iran: Non-visibility and the Politics of Everyday Presence (Bloomsbury, 2021) and the co-editor of Visualizing the Street: New Practices of Documenting, Navigating and Imagining the City (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). His latest article "Walking With and Caring For: Attending to the Self and the Other in the Pedestrian City" is published in Mediapolis: A Journal of Cities and Culture 8, no. 2 (June 2023).

For a full list of Pedram’s publications, see Pedram’s UvA webpage.