Natural Resource Governance | Racial Capitalism | 20th Century Race, Culture, U.S. Empire
My research and teaching are in the field of Transnational American Studies and emphasize comparative and relational inquiry across Africana Studies, Native American and Indigenous Studies, and Environmental Humanities.
Trained as a cultural and historical geographer, I research transnational natural resource governance, the geopolitics of racial liberalism, and the longue durée of U.S. national security. I focus on the 20th century development and transformation of U.S. liberal-democratic institutions framed by “ecological” crisis and natural resource misuse, and how such contemporary methodologies for U.S. social and political practice re-entrench historic entanglements of U.S. racial slavery, settler colonialism, and imperialism.
Through relational and genealogical critiques of transnational natural resource governance and U.S. national security, my research models the study of natural resource governance and the mapping of political struggle from above and below as an approach to a politics under which the ties between Indigenous sovereignty, Black reparations, and anti-racist and anti-imperial movements can be strengthened.
I carry out my research, writing, and teaching 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.
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Williams College | Schapiro Hall, Rm. 202 | Williamstown, MA 01267 | hossein.ayazi@williams.edu | @hossein_ayazi
Trained as a cultural and historical geographer, I research transnational natural resource governance, the geopolitics of racial liberalism, and the longue durée of U.S. national security. I focus on the 20th century development and transformation of U.S. liberal-democratic institutions framed by “ecological” crisis and natural resource misuse, and how such contemporary methodologies for U.S. social and political practice re-entrench historic entanglements of U.S. racial slavery, settler colonialism, and imperialism.
Through relational and genealogical critiques of transnational natural resource governance and U.S. national security, my research models the study of natural resource governance and the mapping of political struggle from above and below as an approach to a politics under which the ties between Indigenous sovereignty, Black reparations, and anti-racist and anti-imperial movements can be strengthened.
I carry out my research, writing, and teaching 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/his
Williams College | Schapiro Hall, Rm. 202 | Williamstown, MA 01267 | hossein.ayazi@williams.edu | @hossein_ayazi