Position:
Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre Visiting Fellow
Dates of Stay in Oxford:
01/09/2022 to 12/06/2023
Email Address:
kayhan.nejad@orinst.ox.ac.uk
Profile:
Kayhan A. Nejad is an historian of twentieth and twenty-first century socialism, anti-socialism, and ethnic conflict. His research centres the connections between greater West Asia and the Soviet and post-Soviet states.
At Oxford, Nejad is pursuing two publication projects. The first, From the Oilfield to the Battlefield, is a monograph study on early twentieth-century revolutionary movements across northern Iran, the Caucasus, and Anatolia. The second, ‘History and territoriality’, is an article study on reemergent nationalisms in the 1992-93 war in Abkhazia. Several of his other publications are forthcoming in leading peer-reviewed journals, encyclopedias, and edited volumes.
Prior to joining the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, Nejad was a Senior Researcher with the Fulbright US Scholar Program at Sabancı University in Istanbul. He is an ardent supporter of orangutan conservation efforts and the great ape personhood movement.
Link in Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre:
https://www.ongc.ox.ac.uk/people/kayhan-a.-nejad
