Saeid Golkar

Saeid Golkar

Saeid Golkar is the UC Foundation Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Golkar has held research and teaching positions at Stanford University and Northwestern University.  He specializes in the politics of authoritarian regimes, with a particular focus on the Middle East and North Africa. He is recognized as an authority on Iran's Basij militia and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). His book, Captive Society: The Basij Militia and Social Control in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Columbia University Press, 2015), received the Washington Institute's Silver Medal Book Prize.  In addition to his academic work, Golkar has contributed to various media outlets, providing insights on Middle Eastern politics and authoritarianism.