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.

“Over de VS en Iran [On the US and Iran],” Buitenhof, April 26, 2026. [Dutch]

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

“Trump Has Options in Iran. None Are Likely to Help Protesters Much.” Wall Street Journal, January 22, 2026.

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