Negar Razavi

Dr. Negar Razavi is a Senior Researcher with Security in Context and an Associate Research Scholar at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University, where she is working on her first book manuscript on the role of policy experts in shaping U.S. security policies toward the Middle East generally and Iran specifically. Broadly, Razavi’s work examines the intersections of state power, empire, security, foreign policy, expertise, and gender.

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. Razavi also regularly shares her findings with broader policy and public audiences and has worked to support other scholars in making their work similarly accessible, as a former Public Outreach Fellow at SAPIENS, a public anthropology magazine, and in her capacity as an Iran co-editor at Jadaliyya.

Prior to her position at Princeton, Razavi was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. She has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and William and Mary. Razavi received her PhD in anthropology from UPenn. She 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.