Hi, I’m Mahsa. I was born and raised in Shiraz, Iran. My family migrated to the US in 1983. For the past 24 years I have made my home in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Mahsa Hojjati is an independent Iranian dance scholar who has researched linguistic group dances across fifteen provinces in Iran on numerous trips since 2008. She is currently working on a book project, Pāykubi Dances of Iran.
Her publications include “Halei Histories: Resistance through Cultural Specificity in the Qashqāi Dances of Iran,” in Dance Chronicle (issue 49.1, online 2025); “Sistani Dances as Connective Paths to Group Identity: The Dances of Migrant Sistani Communities in Golestan Province” in Dance in the Persianate World (ed. Anthony Shay 2023), and feature articles in Dance International Magazine including Iranian Dancers Outside, From Beloved Urmia, and Standing Their Ground. Her writing has also appeared in Ajam Media Collective.
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Journeys of a Diaspora Iranian 