Description: Dr. Payam Mohseni is the Director of the Project on Shi'ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and manages Visions, Harvard's leading online publication on all matters pertaining to global Shi'ism. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as a Lecturer on Islamic…
Dr. Payam Mohseni is the Director of the Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and manages Visions , Harvard’s leading online publication on all matters pertaining to global Shi’ism. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as a Lecturer on Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. At Harvard, he teaches Iranian and Middle East politics as well as Islam and is a multiple recipient of the
Dr. Mohseni’s research focuses on comparative political institutions, Iranian foreign and domestic politics, Shi’a thought and identity, Islam and sectarian conflict in the Middle East, and the politics of authoritarianism and hybrid regimes cross-regionally. In particular, his research has contributed to the field of political institutions and comparative regime studies, specifically regarding the conceptualization of hybrid regimes and tutelary institutions, and on theoretical questions of authoritarian r
Dr. Mohseni is fluent in Persian and travels frequently to Iran and the region. As an academic scholar who also engages with current global affairs and the policy-making community, h is analysis on Iranian politics, the US-Iran nuclear stalemate, sectarian violence, and other prominent issues of Middle East security has been featured in The New York Times , Foreign Affairs , Washington Post , The National Interest , Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists , Bloomberg , U.S. News and World Report , and MSNBC , am