Academic Profile
Reza Zia-Ebrahimi is a historian of nationalism and race. In The Emergence of Iranian Nationalism (Columbia University Press, 2016) he offered a genealogy of 'dislocative nationalism', an ideology predicated on the racialisation of Iran's history and the adoption of the Aryan discourse, strategically employed to escape Iran's perceived backwardness vis-à-vis Europe. In recent years, Zia-Ebrahimi has extensively published on the entanglements of Islamophobia and antisemitism. Additionally, his work delves into the nexus between racial representation and conspiracy thinking. Zia-Ebrahimi holds the position of Reader in History at King's College London.
Current Position
Reader in the History of Nationalism and Race,
King's College London