Peyman Jafari

Peyman Jafari is a historian of labor, oil, and revolution and a scholar of the politics and international relations of Iran and the Middle East. He is Assistant Professor of History and International Relations at William & Mary and a fellow at the International Institute of Social History.

Highlights

Worlds of Labour Turned Upside down: Revolutions and Labour Relations in Global Historical Perspective (Brill, 2021)

“Labour in the Making of the International Relations of Oil: Resource Nationalism and Trade Unions,” Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2022.

“Weer demonstrant geëxecuteerd in Iran [Another protester executed in Iran],” Nieuwsuur, December 13, 2022. [Dutch]

Lecture: Iran in Revolt: the Long Road to Freedom, Maastricht University, January 28, 2023. [English]

**“Why mass strikes could be a missing key to Iran’s Uprising,” The Washington Post,** December 21, 2022.