Gohar Dashti, Home, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, 2020
Land/Agriculture/Food | Racial Capitalism | Race/Empire/Culture in 20th- and 21st-century U.S.
I received my Ph.D. in "Society and Environment" from the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. I locate my work on the political economy and cultural politics of race and U.S. agri-food systems at the intersection of the fields of American Studies, Comparative Ethnic Studies, and Critical Geography.
Across my research, teaching, and public curriculum, I focus on 20th- and 21st-century dynamics of U.S. agricultural and rural governance and investment, U.S. racial capitalism and colonialism, and racial formations within and beyond the United States. Critically, I do so while centering the antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles at the center of such historical and contemporary dynamics.
I carry out such work across higher education settings, where I have treated agri-food systems education and research as an avenue to building community and addressing broader issues of economic and racial injustice. 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, and is forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and in the edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: Global Histories of Industrial Education. As a Project Policy Analyst with the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have also co-authored substantial reports on agri-food and environmental policy, international development and globalization, the climate crisis, and forced migration.
Across my research, teaching, and public curriculum, I focus on 20th- and 21st-century dynamics of U.S. agricultural and rural governance and investment, U.S. racial capitalism and colonialism, and racial formations within and beyond the United States. Critically, I do so while centering the antiracist, anticolonial, and revolutionary-socialist struggles at the center of such historical and contemporary dynamics.
I carry out such work across higher education settings, where I have treated agri-food systems education and research as an avenue to building community and addressing broader issues of economic and racial injustice. 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, and is forthcoming in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, and in the edited volume, The Gospel of Work and Money: Global Histories of Industrial Education. As a Project Policy Analyst with the Othering & Belonging Institute, I have also co-authored substantial reports on agri-food 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