Global Agri-Food Systems | 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 food systems governance as counterrevolutionary methodologies of modern U.S. racial capitalism and colonialisms.
In my scholarship, I focus on how the idea and practice of agricultural and rural development have helped reconstitute and strengthen the United States’ racially hierarchical political economy against the specter of anticolonial revolutionary-socialist struggle, and amidst competing visions of development within and beyond the United States.
Across my research, teaching, and advocacy, I model the study of global agri-food systems as an approach to understanding the institutions, discourses, and practices of modern U.S. racial capitalism and colonialisms, and the labor-capital and land-based 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.
In my scholarship, I focus on how the idea and practice of agricultural and rural development have helped reconstitute and strengthen the United States’ racially hierarchical political economy against the specter of anticolonial revolutionary-socialist struggle, and amidst competing visions of development within and beyond the United States.
Across my research, teaching, and advocacy, I model the study of global agri-food systems as an approach to understanding the institutions, discourses, and practices of modern U.S. racial capitalism and colonialisms, and the labor-capital and land-based 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
Williams College | Schapiro Hall, Rm. 202 | Williamstown, MA 01267 | hossein.ayazi@williams.edu | @hossein_ayazi