I am an interdisciplinary historian who thinks about the relationship between race and empire. I engage in the fields of diplomatic history, Asian American Studies, and Critical SWANA Studies, and more specifically, Iranian Diaspora Studies.
Publications:
“Post-Revolutionary Iranians in the Philippines: Toward Decentering the United States in Asian/American Studies,” American Quarterly 77: 4 (2025), (forthcoming).
“After the Battle of Beverly Hills: U.S. Government Surveillance of Iranian International Students in the Cold War,” Diplomatic History 48:2 (2024), 167-187.
“Keywords as Frameworks for Liberatory Pedagogy and Praxis: Meeting SWANA and Asian American Studies,” Journal of Asian American Studies 26:2 (2023), 175-184.
“Persian/American Exceptionalism in the Multicultural Era: Post-9/11 Strategies of Belonging in the Iranian Diaspora Through Cultural Production,” Amerasia 47:3 (2021), 405-422.
“‘Support the 41’: Iranian Student Activism in Northern California, 1970-3,” in American-Iranian Dialogues: From Constitution to White Revolution, c. 1890s-1960s. 167-182. Edited by Matthew Shannon. New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.
I am currently at work on a book project that focuses on the racialized experience of Iranian foreign nationals from 1953 to 2001. Bridging diplomatic history and Asian American Studies, it makes the case for understanding racial projects as transnational, imperial processes with lingering legacies. Folks interested in learning more about the manuscript’s arguments and significance can consult my article, “After the Battle of Beverly Hills: U.S. Government Surveillance of Iranian International Students in the Cold War,” which will form part of the project.
