Dr. Negar Razavi is currently an Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, where she completed her first book entitled The Geopolitics of Expertise, which critically examines the role of think tank experts in shaping U.S. policies toward Iran and Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) more broadly. Razavi also serves as a Senior Researcher at Security in Context.

Broadly, Razavi’s work sits at the intersections of critical security studies, anthropology, gender studies, human rights, and global Middle East studies.

Razavi has published her research in Social Text, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR), Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, and Critical Studies on Security. As a publicly-engaged scholar, she has also shared her findings in Security in Context, Jadaliyya, the Iran Podcast, the Message, GenderAvenger, and the Middle East Report.

Previously, Razavi was an ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and College of William and Mary. Razavi received her PhD in anthropology from Penn. She also has an MSc in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford (St. Antony’s) and a BA in history and peace and justice studies from Tufts University.

She is the proud parent of two amazing kids and an avid anime and fantasy nerd.