Kevan Harris
@kevanharris.bsky.social
Associate Prof @ UCLA Sociology / author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran & The Social Question in the 21st Century. Likes: Numero Group playlists
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A huge district court victory for the University of California.
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
‘Unlawful coercion’: Trump can’t withhold funds or demand payment from UC, federal judge rules
A federal judge ruled Donald Trump cannot demand that UCLA pay a $1.2 billion settlement that would have restricted academic freedoms.
calmatters.org
November 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
A huge district court victory for the University of California.
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
District courts find facts. This one found "overwhelming evidence" that the Trump administration has pervasively violated the First Amendment in its efforts to coerce and intimidate the University of California.
News story here—
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I am shocked and abhorred by the arrest of Parviz Sedaghat and the interrogation of Mohammad Maljoo by the Iranian authorities. They are two of Iran's finest independent scholars who have relentlessly analyzed and criticized the repressive politics of akhbar-rooz.com/1404/08/12/3...
دستگیری پرویز صداقت و توقیف وسایل و احضار محمد مالجو
پرويز صداقت و محمد مالجو
خبر بازداشت دو چهره ی چپ، پرويز صداقت اقتصاددان، ناشر و سر دبي
akhbar-rooz.com
November 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I am shocked and abhorred by the arrest of Parviz Sedaghat and the interrogation of Mohammad Maljoo by the Iranian authorities. They are two of Iran's finest independent scholars who have relentlessly analyzed and criticized the repressive politics of akhbar-rooz.com/1404/08/12/3...
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I am happy to announce the publication of my latest book
The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
amazon.com/Iraq-Wars-Shor…
An audio-book version is scheduled for release in December.
The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
amazon.com/Iraq-Wars-Shor…
An audio-book version is scheduled for release in December.
October 15, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I am happy to announce the publication of my latest book
The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
amazon.com/Iraq-Wars-Shor…
An audio-book version is scheduled for release in December.
The Iraq Wars: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press).
amazon.com/Iraq-Wars-Shor…
An audio-book version is scheduled for release in December.
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Coming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in the summer of 2026! @lisablaydes.bsky.social and I edited a book "Ba'thist Iraq through Archives" with a star studded list of contributors!
September 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Coming from @stanfordpress.bsky.social in the summer of 2026! @lisablaydes.bsky.social and I edited a book "Ba'thist Iraq through Archives" with a star studded list of contributors!
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Deadline extended! POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 22. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
Call for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political Science
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...
pomeps.org
September 8, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Deadline extended! POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 22. More info: pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
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POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info:
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
Call for Proposals: POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops 2025-2026 - Project on Middle East Political Science
The Project on Middle East Political Science is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-...
pomeps.org
August 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
POMEPS is pleased to call for proposals for the POMEPS Junior Scholar Book Development Workshops to be held in a virtual format throughout the academic year 2025-2026. The deadline to apply is Sept. 15. More info:
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
pomeps.org/pomeps-junio...
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A good read by Kheder Khaddour on the recent fighting between the STG and Druze armed groups in Suwayda, the regional repercussions, and the need for negotiated conflict management.
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
The Syrian State After Suwayda
The recent fighting was far more than a transient security incident. It was a profound setback for society.
carnegieendowment.org
July 31, 2025 at 6:14 PM
A good read by Kheder Khaddour on the recent fighting between the STG and Druze armed groups in Suwayda, the regional repercussions, and the need for negotiated conflict management.
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
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New preprint with @cmparreira.bsky.social and Lindsay Walsh posted to @socarxiv.bsky.social: "From Protest to Parliament: Lebanon’s October Revolution and the Rise of Movement Parties." Link: osf.io/preprints/so...
July 22, 2025 at 10:06 PM
New preprint with @cmparreira.bsky.social and Lindsay Walsh posted to @socarxiv.bsky.social: "From Protest to Parliament: Lebanon’s October Revolution and the Rise of Movement Parties." Link: osf.io/preprints/so...
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I love everything about @andrewroberts.bsky.social’s review of four recent books on the postcommunist transition. We know a LOT about the 90s that goes beyond facile references to “neoliberalism” or the “Washington Consensus.” Anyone tempted to work on the period would do well to start with this 👇.
Evaluating the transition: once more with feeling
The reviewed books attempt systematic evaluations of the transition from communism but come to very different conclusions, ranging from catastrophe to success. They tend to lay blame for the proble...
www.tandfonline.com
July 15, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I love everything about @andrewroberts.bsky.social’s review of four recent books on the postcommunist transition. We know a LOT about the 90s that goes beyond facile references to “neoliberalism” or the “Washington Consensus.” Anyone tempted to work on the period would do well to start with this 👇.
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How did Marxist scholars of the Middle East make sense of the Islamic revival? My article "The 'Discovery' of Modern Islam in East Germany after 1979: Iran, the Resurgence of Religion, and the Coming Crisis of Dependent Capitalism" is out (open access):
doi.org/10.1163/1570...
doi.org/10.1163/1570...
The “Discovery” of Modern Islam in East Germany after 1979: Iran, the Resurgence of Religion, and the Coming Crisis of Dependent Capitalism
Abstract This article explores the sudden, unexpected emergence of Islam after 1979 as a central topic of research in Middle Eastern Studies conducted in East Germany, the former German Democratic Rep...
doi.org
July 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
How did Marxist scholars of the Middle East make sense of the Islamic revival? My article "The 'Discovery' of Modern Islam in East Germany after 1979: Iran, the Resurgence of Religion, and the Coming Crisis of Dependent Capitalism" is out (open access):
doi.org/10.1163/1570...
doi.org/10.1163/1570...
Even with a low bar, economic journalism of Iran was getting pretty lazy in the last few years. Muddling through does not a headline make, but "in the months before the war was doing neither: not collapsing, not booming — just recovering from the shock of Trump..." djavadsalehi.com/2025/06/25/i...
July 2, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Even with a low bar, economic journalism of Iran was getting pretty lazy in the last few years. Muddling through does not a headline make, but "in the months before the war was doing neither: not collapsing, not booming — just recovering from the shock of Trump..." djavadsalehi.com/2025/06/25/i...
Wise words by Faribah Adelkhah in Le Monde - there is no op-ed in any US paper which even gets close to this level of analysis.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
June 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Wise words by Faribah Adelkhah in Le Monde - there is no op-ed in any US paper which even gets close to this level of analysis.
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...
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Two pertinent graphs from me tonight...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
June 22, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Two pertinent graphs from me tonight...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
First, U.S. support for bombing Iran is very low — much lower than support was at the time for the American military attacking Afghanistan, Iraq, and ISIS.
Link: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/polls-amer...
Great brief by @davidpatel.bsky.social on applying the demographer's toolkit to MENA studies. I'd wager the conflation of age, period, and cohort effects plagues almost all of Iranian studies to date. Don't get me started on the "youth" as the unit of analysis. zenodo.org/records/1538...
May 18, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Great brief by @davidpatel.bsky.social on applying the demographer's toolkit to MENA studies. I'd wager the conflation of age, period, and cohort effects plagues almost all of Iranian studies to date. Don't get me started on the "youth" as the unit of analysis. zenodo.org/records/1538...
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The Doha Institute is hiring a post-doc with experience in network analysis, statistics, and information technology. Link: www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/P...
Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
The Doha Institute for Graduate Studies (DI) was founded in Qatar in 2015 as a Doha-based independent institution of higher education.
www.dohainstitute.edu.qa
May 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
The Doha Institute is hiring a post-doc with experience in network analysis, statistics, and information technology. Link: www.dohainstitute.edu.qa/en/Careers/P...
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Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at @bjpols.bsky.social!
Key findings: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Article link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Key findings: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Article link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
May 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Our article on legislative cooptation and opposition in the Kuwait National Assembly is finally out at @bjpols.bsky.social!
Key findings: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Article link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Key findings: bsky.app/profile/dani...
Article link: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
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Egypt’s Second Republic: “The regime is strong and cohesive at the top, however, its inability to achieve social and political hegemony and its overreliance on coercion leave the Second Republic at permanent risk of unravelling.” Must read by Yezid Sayigh.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
The Second Republic: Remaking Egypt Under Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi is building a new republic defined by a social ethos of “nothing for free,” a new form of state capitalism, and hyperpresidential powers set within a military g...
carnegieendowment.org
May 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Egypt’s Second Republic: “The regime is strong and cohesive at the top, however, its inability to achieve social and political hegemony and its overreliance on coercion leave the Second Republic at permanent risk of unravelling.” Must read by Yezid Sayigh.
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
carnegieendowment.org/research/202...
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My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
My book, Dust That Never Settles: Literary Afterlives of the Iran-Iraq War is now available for purchase. Please encourage your university or local library to get a copy. You can get a 20% discount from the publisher, Stanford University Press: shorturl.at/ZRGyw. The code is on the attached flyer.
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Bill Luers was a fundamentally optimistic diplomat and I admired him for it.
He once told me that optimism is what kept him in his profession "for so many decades." It is also what drove his remarkable work on US-Iran relations.
He will be missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
He once told me that optimism is what kept him in his profession "for so many decades." It is also what drove his remarkable work on US-Iran relations.
He will be missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
William H. Luers, Diplomat Who Backed Czech Dissident Leader, Dies at 95
www.nytimes.com
May 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Bill Luers was a fundamentally optimistic diplomat and I admired him for it.
He once told me that optimism is what kept him in his profession "for so many decades." It is also what drove his remarkable work on US-Iran relations.
He will be missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
He once told me that optimism is what kept him in his profession "for so many decades." It is also what drove his remarkable work on US-Iran relations.
He will be missed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/u...
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Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?"
By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?"
By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
May 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Recently published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?"
By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
"Declining earnings inequality, rising income inequality: What explains discordant inequality trends in the United States?"
By @zparolin.bsky.social, @lukaslehner.bsky.social, & @natewilmers.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky
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Fred Block reviewed The Master's Tools for @dissentmag.bsky.social. He contrasts my book, which identifies radical forms of economic democracy as the solution to our political crisis, with another, which argues such democracy is an impossibility. In typical form, he has interesting things to say!
May 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Fred Block reviewed The Master's Tools for @dissentmag.bsky.social. He contrasts my book, which identifies radical forms of economic democracy as the solution to our political crisis, with another, which argues such democracy is an impossibility. In typical form, he has interesting things to say!
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Should citizens vote in authoritarian elections? In a recent @apsrjournal article, Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas Pepinsky (@tompepinsky) make the case for the democratic value of voting under authoritarianism.
Should We Vote in Authoritarian Elections?
In the APSA Public Scholarship Program, graduate students in political science produce summaries of new research in the American Political Science Review. This piece, written by Ewa Nizalowska, covers the new article by Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas B. Pepinsky, "Voting in Authoritarian Elections." Elections are often taken as a defining feature of democratic regimes. Although voting is not the only form of democratic political engagement, we tend to presume that voting makes the regimes we live under fairer, more stable and peaceful, or simply better governed.
politicalsciencenow.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Should citizens vote in authoritarian elections? In a recent @apsrjournal article, Turkuler Isiksel and Thomas Pepinsky (@tompepinsky) make the case for the democratic value of voting under authoritarianism.
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Hunting for foreign students, Spring of 1980 edition (NYT, April 18, 1980, p. A 16).
March 27, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Hunting for foreign students, Spring of 1980 edition (NYT, April 18, 1980, p. A 16).