Agrarian Change | Racial Capitalism | 20th-century U.S. Race, Empire, Culture
Trained in American Studies and Cultural and Historical Geography, I research 20th-century U.S. national and international natural resource governance as counterrevolutionary methodologies of modern U.S. racial capitalism.
In my research, I focus on how the idea and practice of agricultural and rural development have helped legitimate and embolden the United States’ racially hierarchical political economy against the specter of revolutionary-socialist struggle, and amidst competing visions of development within and beyond the U.S. nation-state.
Across my research, writing, and teaching, I model the study of natural resource governance and the politics of agrarian change as an approach to understanding the institutions, discourses, and practices of modern U.S. racial capitalism, and highlighting the global conditions and struggles through which they have developed.
I carry out such work in both academic and think tank settings. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Williams College and a Project Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
My research has been published in Comparative American Studies and Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences. As a Project Policy Analyst with the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have also co-authored substantial reports on agricultural and environmental policy, international development and globalization, the climate crisis, and forced migration.
Pronouns: he/him
Williams College | Schapiro Hall, Rm. 202 | Williamstown, MA 01267 | hossein.ayazi@williams.edu | @hossein_ayazi
In my research, I focus on how the idea and practice of agricultural and rural development have helped legitimate and embolden the United States’ racially hierarchical political economy against the specter of revolutionary-socialist struggle, and amidst competing visions of development within and beyond the U.S. nation-state.
Across my research, writing, and teaching, I model the study of natural resource governance and the politics of agrarian change as an approach to understanding the institutions, discourses, and practices of modern U.S. racial capitalism, and highlighting the global conditions and struggles through which they have developed.
I carry out such work in both academic and think tank settings. I am currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the American Studies Program at Williams College and a Project Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University.
My research has been published in Comparative American Studies and Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences. As a Project Policy Analyst with the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have also co-authored substantial reports on agricultural and environmental policy, international development and globalization, the climate crisis, and forced migration.
Pronouns: he/him
Williams College | Schapiro Hall, Rm. 202 | Williamstown, MA 01267 | hossein.ayazi@williams.edu | @hossein_ayazi