Nojang Khatami

is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University in New York City. Born in Iran, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and currently serves as the co-coordinator for Islamic Studies at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. His research and teaching interests include democratic theory, literature, aesthetics, revolution, and resistance. Khatami’s current book project, Rewriting the People: Exile and Resistance in Comparative Political Thought, examines expressions of dissent against oppressive political structures with a comparative analysis moving from Iran to North America. His public scholarship has appeared in The Progressive and Boston Review, and he is co-host of the podcast Politics and the Exilic City. Instagram: @nojang.k / Bluesky: @nojangkhatami.bsky.social