“The ‘New Woman’ of Weimar Germany in the Imaginations of Young Iranian Intellectuals.” European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’histoire
“ ‘Is Hindenburg a Sultan?’ The Trial of the Iranian Communist Journal Peykar in Weimar Germany." Iran Namag 6
“Selling the Third Reich to Iran: Contesting the Historiography of Middle East Fascisms.” In The Routledge History of Global Nazism
selected worksteachingA History of the World Since 1300
Empires, Encounters, and Exchanges
Iran’s Islamic Revolution
Youth Politics and the Global History of Social Justice
Youth Cultures
Youth and Children Through the Ages
educationPh.D. in History, University of Toronto, 2022.
M.A. in History, University of Toronto, 2013.
B.A. with Honours, History and Political Science, University of Toronto, 2011.
FALL 2025 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University
2022-2025 – Postdoctoral Research Associate, Bijan and Sharmin Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University.
2016-2017 - Associate Scholar, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany
Articles—
“The ‘New Woman’ of Weimar Germany in the Imaginations of Young Iranian Intellectuals.” European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’histoire 31, no. 3 (May 3, 2024): 441–67.
professional appointmentsPublications2024
“ ‘Is Hindenburg a Sultan?’ The Trial of the Iranian Communist Journal Peykar in Weimar Germany." Iran Namag 6, no. 1 (Spring 2021): 4-28.
Book Chapters—
2021
Forthcoming
“Selling the Third Reich to Iran: Contesting the Historiography of Middle East Fascisms.” In The Routledge History of Global Nazism, edited by Jennifer Evans, Eric Kurlander, Julia Torrie, and Jonathan Wiesen, Routledge (2026).
In Progress
“Forging a Politics of Solidarity: Kaveh, Iranshahr and the Transnational Anti-Imperial Networks in Berlin.” In The Cambridge History of Modern Political Thought in Iran, edited by Ali Mirsepassi, Bita Mousavi, Brian Plungis, and Gobarg Rekabtalaei. Cambridge University Press.
Other Publications—
2025
INVITED TALKSReview of Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of Germany, by Lauren Stokes, and: The Border Within: Vietnamese Migrants Transforming Ethnic Nationalism in Berlin by Phi Hong Su. German Studies Review 48, no. 1 (2025): 199-202.
2024
“Fascism or Repertoires of Fascism? Contextualizing Twentieth Century Iran in Global Movements of Right-Wing Ideologies,” Iranian Studies Conference, Mexico City, Mexico (August 2024)
2022
2022
2023
“Visions of Youth for a Future Iran: Iranian Students in Interwar Germany,” Princeton University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies (December 2022)
“Connected or Entangled Histories?: Global Knowledge Production and Muslims in Interwar Berlin,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Virtual Format (February 2022)
conference & seminar PRESENTATIONSPaper Presentations—
Global Nazism Roundtable, German Studies Association, Montréal, Québec (October 2023)
2021
“A Revolution of Youth: ‘The Hope of Iran’ Student Association and the Journal Farangestan,” Transatlantic Doctoral Seminar by the German Historical Institute, Virtual Format (June 2021)
2021
“Fashioning the Perfect Iranian Woman in Weimar and Nazi Germany,” Rallying Europe: Intersectional Approaches to Youth in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Virtual Format (June 2021)
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2017
“Weimar, Youth, and the Makings of a ‘Moral Revolution’ in Iran,” German Studies Association, Virtual Conference (October 2020)
“Asian Students in Nazi Germany: Foreign Policy vs. Racial Ideology,” German Studies Association, Portland, OR (October 2019)
“Cultural Politics and German Schools Abroad: The Establishment of German Schools in Iran and Asia during the Interwar Period,” German Studies Association, Pittsburgh, PA (September 2018)
“Extracurricular Activities: Iranian Student Publications in Weimar Germany,” Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies, Toronto, Canada (April 2018)
“Iranian Intellectuals and Students in Germany: From the German Empire to the Nazi Era,” Entangled Muslim Networks in Europe, South Asia, and the Arab Middle East, Freie University Berlin, Germany (February 2017)
2023
Commentator—
Panel Commentator, “Theater Across Borders,” German Studies Association, Montréal, Québec (2023)
academic service2025 - Present
2024 - 2025
2024
Associate Editor for History, Journal of Iranian Studies
Regional Editor, Berlin Inter-Asian Diasporic Anthology
Book Award Committee Member, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Book Award
professional affiliationsAmerican Historical Association
German Studies Association
Association for Iranian Studies
languages