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Fellow Evaleila Pesaran
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Dr Evaleila Pesaran

Official Fellow; Senior College Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Evaleila Pesaran is Senior College Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. She is also a Director of Studies for Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) as well History and Politics at Â鶹ƵµÀ. She has provided pastoral support as a Tutor since 2016, and in 2019-2020 served as Deputy Senior Tutor.

She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies in 2008, and has held her current position at Murray Edwards since October 2007.

Research Interests 

I am interested in exploring the politics of domination and resistance, with reference to the case study of modern Iran. My work focusses on three main strands: (1) ideas of economic independence; (2) the theory and practice of anti-imperialism; and (3) state-society relations and state resilience. My next research project will bring together these three strands within an interdisciplinary analysis of the intellectual output of Iranian women.

Degrees 

  • PhD in Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
  • MSc in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
  • BA in Oriental Studies (Persian), University of Oxford

Awards and Prizes 

  • Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize awarded by the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (2021)
  • Newton Trust CTO Research Leave awarded for the academic year 2018-2019

Authored work

  • Pesaran E. Iran’s Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era. Routledge, 2011.

     

    Pesaran E. Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia. Review of International Studies. Published online 2023:1-17. doi:10.1017/S0260210523000190

     

    Pesaran E. Towards an Anti-Western Stance: The Economic Discourse of Iran’s 1979 Revolution. Iranian Studies. 2008;41(5):693-718. doi:10.1080/00210860802518343