University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | Ph.D. in History, degree expected August 202 | Committee: Profs. Joshua Cole (chair), Rita Chin, Amal Hassan Fadlalla, Afshin Matin-Asgari

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies | M.A. in History, June 2022

University of Wisconsin–Madison | APTLI Summer Intensive Program | Intermediate Persian, Summer 2022

University of California, Los Angeles | B.A. in History, cum laude with College Honors; minor in French, 2017

Book Chapters

Heydari, Keanu. “L’exil politique, les carrières migratoires et l’Union des étudiants iraniens en France : Une étude de cas.” In L’exil Iranien, la diversité d’un phénomène, edited by Nader Vahabi. Errances. Paris: Orizons, 2023.

Translations

Heydari, Keanu (tr.). “Underground Jansenist Journalism: The Nouvelles ecclésiastiques,” in Shaun Blanchard and Richard T. Yoder, eds. Jansenism: An International Anthology (Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming 2024).

Public-Facing Work

Heydari, Keanu. “Feature Archive: Iranian Student Activism and Social Movements in Paris.” French History Network Blog (blog), May 2, 2022. Link.

Graduate Student Instructor, “The Origins of Nazism,” History 322 (Winter 2024). The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Assisted Prof. Scott Spector.

March 15, 2024—“Exit, Loyalty, Suffering: Iranian Student Political Activism and Masculinity in Postwar France,” at the Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference in Hempstead, NY.

November 18, 2023—“Kharej az keshvar: The Psychic Afterlives of Diasporic Iranian Nostalgic Imaginaries in France,” at the Social Science History Association Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.

March 18, 2023—“Political Exile, Migratory Careers, and the Union of Iranian Students in France (U.E.I.F.) in the 1960s and 1970s,” at the Society for French Historical Studies and Western Society for French History Joint Annual Conference in Detroit, MI.

November 19, 2022—“Celibate Gay Christians: Vies singulières devenues d’étranges poèmes,” at the American Academy of Religion’s Gay Men and Religion Unit’s Religion and the Formation of (anti) Gay Male Identities Theme in Denver, CO.

July 6, 2022—“Persian Shah, Parisian Shah: Cultural Anxiety, Orientalism, and Militarization in Nasser al-Din Shah Qajar’s 1873 Visit to France,” at Durham University Institute for Advanced Study’s Modern Travel, Modern Landscapes: Connections and Exchanges in Europe, c. 1850-1950 Conference.

Graduate Student Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Winter 2023. Worked under Prof. Yi-Li Wu’s supervision to curate bibliographic data for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Medicine series (vol. 5, Global Eighteenth-Century Medicine).

Graduate Student Researcher, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Spring/Summer 2020. Worked under Prof. Helmut Puff’s supervision on establishing a bibliography of contemporary writing on affect, speed, mobility, and slowness for his 2023 publication, The Antechamber: Toward a History of Waiting (Stanford University Press).