Natural Resource Governance | Racial Capitalism | Race, Culture, Empire
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 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 agro-industrial politics 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 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 agro-industrial politics 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