Academic Scholarship:
2022
“Navigating the ‘Middle East’ in Washington: Diasporic Experts and the Power of Multiplicitous Diplomacy,” Social Text. 40(3):152. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-9771091
2021
“Golden Boys, Bros, and Barbecues: Gendered Occidentalism and the Shaping of US Policy in the Middle East.” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 44 (1): 91–106. https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12441.
“NatSec Feminism: Women Security Experts and the US Counterterror State.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 46 (2): 361–86. https://doi.org/10.1086/710808.
2018
“In Times of Crisis: Middle East Policy between the Counterterror State and the Marketplace of Ideas.” Critical Studies on Security, August, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/21624887.2018.1500053
“Masco, Joseph. The Theater of Operations: National Security Affect from the Cold War to the War on Terror. Durham, N.C.: Duke Univ. Press, 2014.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 23 (4): 856–57. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12747.2014 (Book review)
2014
“The Rise of ‘Youth Pop’ Films in Contemporary Iran,” in Iranian Cinema in a Global Context: Institutions, Policy, and Form. Eds. Peter Decherney and Blake Atwood. New York, NY: Routledge.
Public Scholarship:
2022
“Four myths about Iran that continue to (mis)guide U.S. foreign policy” (Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies, Doha, Qatar. Sept 5) https://www.dohainstitute.org/en/PoliticalStudies/Pages/four-myths-about-iran-that-continue-to-mis-guide-us-foreign-policy.aspx
“Unknowing the Enemy: Iran and the Geopolitics of Illegibility in Washington(American Anthropologist Vital Topics Forum., Aug 4) https://www.americananthropologist.org/geopolitical-lives/razavi
“The Geopolitics of Middle East Expertise in Washington,” (Global Lunchbox, Northwestern University, Jan 28) Available as podcast: https://soundcloud.com/wccias/the-geopolitics-of-middle-east-expertise-in-washington-a-conversation-with-negar-razavi
2021
“Washington’s Problem of Iran Expertise,” The Iran Podcast with Negar Mortazavi. May. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/washingtons-problem-of-iran-expertise/id1515542917?i=1000520693715
2020
“Rethinking US Policy Toward Iran: A Forum” Middle East Report. May 27. https://merip.org/2020/05/rethinking-us-policy-toward-iran-a-forum/
2019
“The Systemic Problem of ‘Iran Expertise’ in Washington” Jadaliyya. September 4. https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/39946
“Jadaliyya Talks: Negar Razavi on The Systemic Problem of “Iran Expertise” in Washington,” Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative. Jadaliyya. December 9 https://mespi.org/2019/12/09/jadaliyya-talks-negar-razavi-on-the-systemic-problem-of-iran-expertise-in-washington/
“Prisoner Swaps and Political Turbulence” The Message Podcast, Reza Marashi. The Iranian.com , December 12. https://www.bababam.com/en/reza-marashi-message/201912120700-prisoner-swaps-and-political-turbulence-episode-2
2017
“In the Loop and Off the Record: Power and the Washington Establishment” Anthropology News. July 18. https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/AN.634
2015
“An Anthropologist’s Study of Washington Think Tanks and Gender Imbalance” GenderAvenger. October 26. https://www.genderavenger.com/blog/negar-razavi-washington-think-tanks
“What Washington is missing in the Iran deal.” Project for the Study of the 21st Century. July 20. https://projects21.org/2015/07/20/what-washington-is-missing-in-the-iran-deal/
2009
“Dear President Ahmadinejad and President Obama: Support Generation Y Diplomacy,” Huffington Post. March 12. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dear-president-ahmadineja_b_164804