Dr. Nojang Khatami is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University in New York City. Born in Iran, he is an alumnus of the PhD program in Political Science at UBC, was a postdoctoral fellow at the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, and currently serves as the co-coordinator for Islamic Studies at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. His research and teaching interests include democratic theory, literature, aesthetics, revolution, and resistance. Khatami’s current book project, Rewriting the People: Exile and Resistance in Comparative Political Thought, examines expressions of dissent against oppressive political structures with a comparative analysis moving from Iran to North America. His public scholarship has appeared in The Progressive and Boston Review, and he is co-host of the new podcast Politics and the Exilic City.