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Fellow Evaleila Pesaran
Fellow

Dr Evaleila Pesaran

Official Fellow; Director of Studies; Senior College Lecturer in Politics and International Relations

Contact
Ep336@cam.ac.uk⁠ 01223 762280⁠

Evaleila Pesaran is Senior College Lecturer in Politics and International Relations. She is also a Director of Studies for Human, Social, and Political Sciences (HSPS) as well History and Politics at 91¶¶Ňő. She provided pastoral support as a Tutor from 2016 until 2024, and in 2019-2020 served as Deputy Senior Tutor.

She completed her PhD in Politics and International Studies in 2008, and has held her current position at 91¶¶Ňő since October 2007. Evaleila is also a Trustee and Outreach Director of the British Institute for Persian Studies (BIPS), as well as Area Editor for “Politics and Activism” in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women’s History.

Research Interests 

I am interested in exploring the politics of domination and resistance, with reference to the case study of modern Iran. My work focusses on three main strands: (1) ideas of economic independence; (2) the theory and practice of anti-imperialism; and (3) state-society relations and state resilience. My next research project will bring together these three strands within an interdisciplinary analysis of the intellectual output of Iranian women.

Degrees 

  • PhD in Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
  • MSc in Development Studies, SOAS, University of London
  • BA in Oriental Studies (Persian), University of Oxford

Awards and Prizes 

  • Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize awarded by the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (2021)
  • Newton Trust CTO Research Leave awarded for the academic year 2018-2019

Authored work

  • Iran’s “Woman, Life, Freedom” Movement. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Gender and Women's History, edited by Amanda Capern. Oxford Academic, 2026.

     

    Outside In? Iran’s Mixed Responses to International Stigmatization. Iranian Studies, 2026; 1-7. 

     

    Digital Entrepreneurs and State Resilience under Sanctions in Iran. In Power, Resistance, Ideology and the State: Charles Tripp and the Comparative Politics of the Middle East, edited by Toby Dodge, Daniel Neep and Ali M. Ansari. Gingko, 2025.

     

    Imperial power, anti-imperial resistance, and the shaping of international hierarchies: Lessons from 1930s Persia. Review of International Studies. 2024; 50(4):760-776.

     

    Iran’s Struggle for Economic Independence: Reform and Counter-Reform in the Post-Revolutionary Era. Routledge, 2011.

     

Subjects
History & Politics Human, Social & Political Sciences