Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation associate professor of political science at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga, a senior advisor at United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), and a writing fellow at the Middle East Forum. He previously held research and teaching positions at Stanford University and Northwestern University. His extensive research on authoritarian regimes includes the Washington Institute studies “Protests and Regime Suppression in Post-Revolutionary Iran” and “Cultural Heterogeneity in Post-Revolutionary Iran.” His 2015 book on the Basij paramilitary force and the securitization of Iranian society, Captive Society (Columbia University Press), was honored with The Washington Institute’s Silver Medal Book Prize.
