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Sample Publications
2021. “Difference in Difference: Language, Geography, and Ethno-racial Identity in Contemporary Iran,” with Rasmus Elling. Ethnic and Racial Studies.
2020. “Unraveling the Middle Classes in Postrevolutionary Iran.” Political Power and Social Theory, Vol. 37: 103-134.
2020. “Of Eggs and Stones: Foreign Sanctions and Domestic Political Economy in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” Pp. 72-96 in Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability: Duration, Financial Control, and Institutions, edited by Victor Shih. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
2019. “Iran’s Commanding Heights: Privatization and Conglomerate Ownership in the Islamic Republic.” Pp. 363-399 in Crony Capitalism in the Middle East: Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring, edited by Ishac Diwan, Adeel Malik, and Izak Atiyas. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
2019. “Pen to the Tiller: Land Reform and Social Mobility Across the 1979 Iranian Revolution,” with Zep Kalb. Journal of Agrarian Change, Vol. 19, No. 3: 465-486.
2017. A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran. Oakland, CA: University of California Press.
2018. "Divergent Histories and Converging Inequalities in the Middle East and Latin America." Middle East Report 284/285: 18-23.
2016. "Making and Unmaking of the Greater Middle East." New Left Review 101: 5-34.
2015. “The Breakaway Boss: Semiperipheral Innovations and the Rise of Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad.” Journal of World-Systems Research, Vol. 21, No. 2: 417-447.
2013. “The Rise of the Subcontractor State: Politics of Pseudo-Privatization in the Islamic Republic of Iran.” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 45, No. 1: 45-70.
Current Position
Assistant Professor,
UCLA