Arash Davari is Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics at Whitman College. His research and teaching interests include modern political theory; history and theory; aesthetics and politics; and political economy, state formation and social change in the Middle East. his writings have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Political Theory, and The International Journal of Middle East Studies. He co-founded B|ta’arof magazine.
Peyman Jafari is a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University. He is currently working on a book project based on his dissertation – Oil, Labor and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-83. His research interests include petro-capitalism, labor history, social movements and revolutions. He is the co-editor of Iran in the Middle East: Transnational Encounters and Social Histories (I.B. Tauris, 2015) and Worlds of Labor Turned Upside Down: Labor Relations and Revolutions in Global and Historical Perspective (Brill, 2020).
Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies. His work contributes to political and comparative-historical sociology by exploring the interaction between protest movements and democratization. Kadivar’s research has been published in the American Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Social Forces, Socius, and Mobilization, and has won awards from multiple sections of American Sociological Association. Kadivar is currently directing Iran Protest Lab at Boston College that focuses on collecting and analyzing quantitative data on pro- and anti-government protests in Iran.
Zep Kalb is a doctoral student in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Kalb specializes in the study of contentious politics, development, and stratification, with a focus on the Middle East and West Asia.
Arang Keshavarzian is Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He is the author of Bazaar and State in Iran: the Politics of the Tehran Marketplace (Cambridge University Press, 2007). He is a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report.
Azam Khatam is a visiting scholar at the City Institute and an Instructor at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York University. She is a prominent sociologist and urban scholar with extensive professional experience in social and urban planning in Iran. Her Ph.D. research at York University studies the convergence of developmentalism, modernization, and production of space in Tehran. She has worked as researcher in different academic institutions including, the City Institute at York University on “Global Suburbanisms, Governance, Land, and Infrastructure” project (2013-17); the International Institute of Social History (2012) on “Housing Policy in Iranian Oil Industry”; and with Concordia University on “Women's Empowerment in Muslim Contexts: Poverty, Gender and Democratization from the Inside Out” (2006-9). Her most recent article, “Interrupting planetary urbanization: A view from Middle Eastern cities” (co-authored with Oded Haas), was published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 36 (3), 2018. She is currently working on a book titled “Revolutionary Islam Makes its Capital Global.”
Saira Rafiee is PhD student of Political Theory at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Rafiee focuses on the Frankfurt School, neoliberal society and authoritarianism, and the social psychology of fascism.
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Comparative Political Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London. He was previously a British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford, where he also obtained his doctorate. He has published widely on Iranian political thought and current affairs and is a co-editor of Jadaliyya’s Iran Page, as well as series editor of Radical Histories of the Middle East (Oneworld).
