Navid Farnia is a scholar of African American Studies. His research broadly explores the relationship between racial oppression in the United States and U.S. imperialism with a focus on revolutionary movements and counterrevolutionary responses. Navid’s book manuscript, National Liberation in an Imperialist World: Race, Counterrevolution, and the United States, traces the U.S. national security state’s evolution by examining how U.S. officials responded to national liberation movements at home and abroad from the 1950s to 1980. Navid has also written on the impact of economic sanctions imposed by the United States on Third World countries, the emergence of a multipolar world order, the South African liberation leader Chris Hani, and the regional dynamics of the ongoing Palestinian liberation struggle.

Nina Farnia is a law professor and legal historian whose scholarship exposes the role of imperialism in US law and politics. Her forthcoming book is entitled Imperialism and Resistance (Stanford University Press 2026), and is based on her dissertation, Imperialism in the Making of U.S. Law, 1940-2008, which won the 2023 Julien Mezey Dissertation Award from the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities. Her second book will focus on the legal history of US fascism, and is tentatively titled Imperialism and Fascism.