Naming Me and Naming Them: The Politics and Poetics of Names, Smithsonian Institute Recovering Voices, (in preparation)

Sanctions and the Visual Arts of Iran, Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development, Vol 14, Issue 2, 2023

The Emergence of an Auction Category: Iranian Art at Christie’s Dubai in Arts, Special Issue "The Contemporary Art Market”, Volume 10, Issue 2, pg. 35, 2021

Post-Pandemic Art Ecologies: Online Engagement in British Museums, in Covid-19 and the Arts in Europe, Magenta Books, Ukraine, 2021

The Practice of Art: An Alternative View of Contemporary Art Practice in Tehran, in Art and Aesthetics in a Globalizing World, (eds) Raminder Kaur & Parul Mukherjee, Berg, 2013

Coffee Shops and Cigarettes: The Importance of Place Amongst Iranian Diaspora in Tehran, in Iranian Studies, Volume 46, Issue 1, 2013, pg. 115, 2013

Leili's scholarship is based on long-term interaction with cultural producers across local, regional and international contexts and tensions between diaspora and homeland that undergird the circulation of people and objects. Her research is located at the intersection of the anthropology of art and material and visual culture studies. 

Leili teaches on the MSc Culture and Society programme and convenes the undergraduate course Material Culture and Everyday Life.