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Rose Wellman is an anthropologist who specializes in the Middle East and its diaspora, including Arab Detroit. Her book, , draws from ethnographic research in Iran between 2007 and 2010 to explore how everyday family life and piety are linked to state power. Wellman is currently conducting research with Arab Americans, focusing on metro Detroit’s vibrant Iraqi community. She is a faculty affiliate of the Center for Arab American Studies, Middle East Studies, and Women and Gender Studies at ������-Dearborn as well as the Center for Arab American Narratives at ACCESS. Wellman's courses cover subjects as diverse as the Middle East, religion, kinship and marriage, food, and Islam. 

Wellman, Rose, and Islam Jaffal. Journal for the Anthropology of North America 26, no. 1–2 (2023): 21–40.

Wellman, Rose. . University of California Press, Berkeley, CA: June 2021.

Wellman, Rose. " .” In Lene Pedersen and Lisa Cliggett (Eds.), The Sage Handbook of Cultural Anthropology, April 2021, pp. 72-90.

Wellman, Rose. “” Gastronomica: The Journal of Critical Food Studies. Vol. 20, no.1, 2020, pp. 23-33.

Wellman, Rose. “,” American Ethnologist, vol. 44, no. 3, 2017, pp. 503-515.

In 2020, Wellman was awarded a research grant (with Dr. Carmel Price and Dr. Matthew Stiffler) to improve data on Arab and Middle Eastern and North African students in Southeastern Michigan. She further received research development funding for her ethnographic research project, “Making Home in Metro Detroit: Shi'i Iraqi Migrants Encountering American Islamophobia.”

Wellman has organized several international conferences including "Ethnography of Iran: Past and Present" (Princeton University) and "The Sacred Social: Spiritual Kinship among the Abrahamic Faiths" (Wenner-Gren Foundation). She is the recipient of support from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.