Transnational Natural Resource Governance | Race, Culture, U.S. Empire | Migration | Black & Indigenous Political Thought
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 and the longue durée of U.S. national security. I focus on the development of U.S. liberal-democratic institutions framed by “ecological” crisis and natural resource misuse, and how such methodologies for U.S. social and political practice re-entrench historic entanglements of U.S. racial slavery, settler colonialism, and imperialism.
I carry out my research and writing in both academic and think tank settings. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University and a Project Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (formerly known as the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society).
Tufts University | 48 Professors Row, Medford MA 02155 | hossein.ayazi@tufts.edu | @hossein_ayazi
Trained as a cultural and historical geographer, I research transnational natural resource governance and the longue durée of U.S. national security. I focus on the development of U.S. liberal-democratic institutions framed by “ecological” crisis and natural resource misuse, and how such methodologies for U.S. social and political practice re-entrench historic entanglements of U.S. racial slavery, settler colonialism, and imperialism.
I carry out my research and writing in both academic and think tank settings. I am currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Center for the Humanities at Tufts University and a Project Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Othering & Belonging Institute at the University of California, Berkeley (formerly known as the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society).
Tufts University | 48 Professors Row, Medford MA 02155 | hossein.ayazi@tufts.edu | @hossein_ayazi