Abolghasem Bayyenat
Farzaneh Family Postdoctoral Fellow in Iranian Studies
Email: Bayyenat@ou.edu
Office: Farzaneh Hall 329
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Abolghasem Bayyenat is currently a Farzaneh Family postdoctoral fellow in Iranian studies at the University of Oklahoma. He joined the Farzaneh Family Center for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies in January 2023. From August 2020 until January 2022, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in nuclear security at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in political science (international relations and comparative politics) from Maxwell School of Syracuse University and wrote his doctoral dissertation on the logic and political dynamics of Iran's nuclear policymaking.
Dr. Bayyenat’s research interests are focused on Iranian foreign policy and U.S. foreign policy toward Iran and the Middle East. On a broader level, his research interests revolve around such themes as nuclear non-proliferation, politics of economic sanctions, and state identity and foreign policymaking. He has published a range of scholarly as well as policy-related journal articles, book chapters, and op-eds on Iranian foreign and nuclear policy developments and U.S. foreign policy toward Iran over the last decade and so, which mostly can be accessed on his website. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies in the US, he also worked for six years as a researcher on the World Trade Organization (WTO) and as an international trade expert and negotiator in Iran. During this period, he published a series of journal articles and book chapters both in English and Persian, and participated in many bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations and took part in a number of international trade expert meetings and training courses sponsored by the WTO and UNCTAD in Geneva, Switzerland, and in other parts of the world.
During his two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Oklahoma’s Farzaneh Family Center, Dr. Bayyenat will engage in research activities focused on developing his doctoral dissertation into a book manuscript and publishing a number of peer-reviewed journal articles drawing on his dissertation and parallel research projects . He will also be teaching courses on Iranian foreign policy, U.S.-Iran relations, and such broader international studies topics as global nuclear politics, among others.
