Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Arts & Science
Project: Fashioning the Gulf: The Persian Gulf in the Long Twentieth Century
Arang Keshavarzian is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at NYU. His teaching and research explores politics and political economy of the modern Middle East, in particular Iran, the Persian Gulf, and Arabian Peninsula. His publications include Bazaar and State in Iran as well as essays on urban development, authoritarianism, state-formation, and political economy of trade and smuggling in such journals as Politics and Society, Geopolitics, International Journal of Middle East Studies, and Economy and Society. He is also a member of the editorial committee of Middle East Report (MERIP). His current book project maps shifts in the global political economy across the long Twentieth Century from the vantage point of the circuits of trade, built environment, and geopolitical imaginaries of the Persian Gulf.