Learning to Think Slowly
An Intellectual Memoir of Early Graduate School: I reconstruct my early graduate training as an uneven education in subordinating theory to evidence.
Keanu M. Heydari
Historian · Seminarian
Finishing post-defense dissertation revisions and getting settled in Princeton, NJ. More on the Now page →
Selected writing
Iranian Neo-Monarchism and the Politics of Diasporic Longing
Royalist nostalgia in the Iranian diaspora and hawkish U.S. Iran policy operate as mutually reinforcing formations, each lending the other moral warrant and institutional durability; a genealogical reading exposes the contingency and silences that sustain this co-produced longing.
Recent Work on Colonial Violence in French Algeria
Surveying four monographs on colonial violence in French Algeria (Brower, Sessions, Surkis, Cole), this essay shows how each abandons the colonizer/colonized binary for a view of violence as plural in logic, and treats metropole and colony as a single analytic field.