Keanu M. Heydari

Historian ยท Seminarian

Portrait of Keanu M. Heydari

Selected writing

What is a Mark For?

A system for marking books and keeping notes that can be cited

Learning to Think Slowly

An Intellectual Memoir of Early Graduate School: I reconstruct my early graduate training as an uneven education in subordinating theory to evidence.

Iranian Neo-Monarchism and the Politics of Diasporic Longing

Royalist nostalgia in the Iranian diaspora and hawkish U.S. Iran policy operate as mutually reinforcing formations, each lending the other moral warrant and institutional durability; a genealogical reading exposes the contingency and silences that sustain this co-produced longing.