University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. Ph.D. in History, degree expected July 2025. Dissertation title: “Iranian Student Radicalism in France, 1945–1979.” Committee: Profs. Joshua Cole (chair), Rita Chin, Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Afshin Matin-Asgari.

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies. M.A. in History, June 2022.

University of Wisconsin–Madison. The Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Language Institute (MEDLI), formerly known as the Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Language Institute (APTLI). Intermediate Persian, Summer 2022.

University of California, Los Angeles. B.A. in History, cum laude with College Honors; minor in French, 2017.

Book Chapters

Heydari, Keanu. “L’exil politique, les carrières migratoires et l’Union des étudiants iraniens en France : Une étude de cas.” (“Political Exile, Migratory Careers, and the Union of Iranian Students in France: A Case Study”) In L’exil Iranien, la diversité d’un phénomène (Iranian Exile: The Diversity of a Phenomenon), edited by Nader Vahabi. Errances. Paris: Orizons, 2023.

Translations

Heydari, Keanu (tr.). “Underground Jansenist Journalism: The Nouvelles ecclésiastiques,” in Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder, eds. Jansenism: An International Anthology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2024).

Public-Facing Work

Heydari, Keanu. “Feature Archive: Iranian Student Activism and Social Movements in Paris.” French History Network Blog (blog), May 2, 2022. [Link].

Heydari, Keanu. “Threads of Belonging, Echoes of Exile.” New International, November 18, 2024. [Link].

As Instructor of Record

• History 195, “The Writing of History—Student Activism & Resistance: Global Historical Perspectives,” (Fall 2024). The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

 As Graduate Student Instructor

• History 322, “The Origins of Nazism,” (Winter 2024). Assisted Prof. Scott Spector. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 312, “History of European Integration.” (Fall 2023). Assisted Prof. Dario Gaggio. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 443/Islam 443/Mideast 487, “Modern Middle East History.” (Winter 2023). Assisted Prof. Juan Cole. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 318, “Europe in the Era of Total War.” (Fall 2022). Assisted Prof. Kate Wroblewski. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 314, “Empire, War, and Modernity: France and the World in the 20th Century.” (Winter 2021). Assisted Prof. Joshua Cole. [Online modality]. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 318, “Europe in the Age of Total War.” (Fall 2020). Assisted Prof. Joshua Cole. [Online modality]. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 313/French 344, “The Revolutionary Century: France, 1789–1871.” (Winter 2020). Assisted Prof. Joshua Cole. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

• History 386/Judaic 386/Germanic 391, “The Holocaust: The Fate of The Jews, 1933–1949.” (Fall 2019). Assisted Prof. Jeffrey Veidlinger. The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

“Celibate Gay Christians, Tradwives, and Christian Nationalists: The Discursive Regime of Mandatory Heterosexuality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism,” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in San Diego, CA. November 23, 2024.

“Constructing Diaspora Politics: The Case of Long-Distance Nationalism in Iranian Student Activism in France in the 1960s and 70s,” at the Social Science History Association Annual Conference in Toronto, Canada. November 2, 2024.

“A Secret Desire for Liberation: Iranian Student Radicals’ Imagination of France, National Liberation, and Artistic Development in the 1950s,” at the French Colonial Historical Society in Charlottesville, VA. May 23, 2024.

“Exit, Loyalty, Suffering: Iranian Student Political Activism and Masculinity in Postwar France,” at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference in Hempstead, NY. March 15, 2024

 “Kharej az keshvar: The Psychic Afterlives of Diasporic Iranian Nostalgic Imaginaries in France,” at the Social Science History Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C. November 18, 2023

 “Political Exile, Migratory Careers, and the Union of Iranian Students in France (U.E.I.F.) in the 1960s and 1970s,” at the Society for French Historical Studies and Western Society for French History Joint Annual Conference in Detroit, MI. March 18, 2023

“Celibate Gay Christians: Vies singulières devenues d’étranges poèmes,” at the American Academy of Religion Annual Conference in Denver, CO. November 19, 2022

“Persian Shah, Parisian Shah: Cultural Anxiety, Orientalism, and Militarization in Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar’s 1873 Visit to France,” at Durham University Institute for Advanced Study’s Modern Travel, Modern Landscapes: Connections and Exchanges in Europe, c. 1850-1950 Conference. July 6, 2022.

Graduate Student Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter 2023. Worked under Prof. Yi-Li Wu’s supervision to curate bibliographic data for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Medicine series (vol. 5, Global Eighteenth-Century Medicine).

Graduate Student Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Spring/Summer 2020. Worked under Prof. Helmut Puff’s supervision on establishing a bibliography of contemporary writing on affect, speed, mobility, and slowness for his 2023 publication, The Antechamber: Toward a History of Waiting (Stanford University Press).