Naveed Mansoori

Naveed Mansoori teaches courses in the history of political thought with focus on critical theory and postcolonial theory. His research excavates archives of revolution in the Global South to examine how social actors struggle for a good life in a bad one. His book manuscript, The Principle of Ruin: Revolutionary Iran and the Myth of Politics, examines how subaltern actors facing a disintegrating political order sustained the promise of social renewal through mythmaking.

Mansoori received his Ph.D. in political science from UCLA. Previously, Mansoori was an ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow in the Race, Religion, & Democracy Lab at the University of Virginia; a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University; and a lecturer in Middle East Studies and African American Studies at the University of Arkansas. His work has appeared in Contemporary Political Theory, Philosophy & Global Affairs, and Theory & Event. He is also a co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on the Lived Experience of Ideology.