His research and teaching interests include modern, contemporary, and comparative political theory; the history of political thought; history and theory; aesthetics and politics; race and racialization; Iranian studies; immigration; and Middle Eastern politics and culture. He is currently preparing a book manuscript, titled Indeterminate Governmentality: Neoliberal Politics in Revolutionary Iran. The project explores an unlikely parallel between the emergence of revolutionary resistance in Iran and neoliberal political rationality in the Middle East between 1968 and 1979.