Nojang Khatami

PhD University of British Columbia (Political Science)

MA University of British Columbia (Political Science)

Hon. BA University of Toronto (English, Philosophy, Spanish)

Nojang Khatami is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Fordham University – Lincoln
Center campus. His research and teaching focus on comparative political thought and democratic
theory, with interests in literature, aesthetics, agency, and resistance. Prior to his appointment at
Fordham, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Justitia Center for Advanced Studies at Goethe-
Universität Frankfurt. His areas of expertise include Islamic and Latin American political
thought, with particular attention to aesthetic expressions of dissent against oppressive political
structures. Professor Khatami’s work has appeared in the journals Constellations and Asian
Cinema, along with public scholarship in Boston Review and the European Consortium for
Political Research. His current research project is focused on exile and the politics of aesthetics
in and beyond Western political thought. Beginning in the 2023 academic year, he will also serve
as co-coordinator and program mentor for the Minor in Islamic Studies.

Introduction to Political Philosophy

Revolution

Political Philosophy between Islam and the West

Islam, Art, and Resistance