Dr Shabnam Holliday

About me

I’m an Associate Professor at the School of Society and Culture at the University of Plymouth. I joined the university after completing my PhD on discourses of Iranian national at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

My publications include Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance (Routledge, 2011) and the edited volume, with Phil Leech, Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East (Rowman and Littlefield International, 2016).

I’m the current Director of the British Institute of Persia’s Modern Research Project and am also on their research committee.

Research areas

My research focuses on the relationship between domestic and international politics in relation to populism; the role of ideas in politics in the Global South; the construction of global order and its relationship with revolution and political transformation. These research interests are reflected in ongoing research projects: Iran and global order; and Iran and the international.