Agricultural and Environmental Policy | International Development |Race, Culture, and U.S. State Power

I am a scholar of Transnational American Studies, with an emphasis on comparative and relational inquiry across Native American/Indigenous Studies, Africana Studies, and Environmental Humanities. Broadly, my research and teaching consider how modes of anticipatory governance in moments of “natural” or “ecological” crisis re-entrench the entanglements of racialization, colonization, and accumulation from which such crises emerge. 

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 (CHAT) and a Project Policy Analyst with the Global Justice program at the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society (HIFIS) at the University of California, Berkeley.

Tufts University | 48 Professors Row, Medford MA 02155 | hossein.ayazi@tufts.edu | @hossein_ayazi