Shabnam J. Holliday

Dr Shabnam J. Holliday is Associate Professor in International Relations at the University of Plymouth, UK. She is also Research Director of the British Institute of Persian Studies (part of the British Academy). Her research interests are around Iran and world orders, and decentring International Relations (IR). She is author of several peer-reviewed articles including (with Edward Wastnidge) ‘Towards a Post-imperial and Global IR?: Revisiting Khatami’s Dialogue among Civilisations’, Review of International Studies (2025) and ‘Beyond Hegemony, World Order as Domination: Iran’s Green Movement and the Nuclear Sanctions Regimes’, International Relations (2023). She is co-editor (with Philip Leech) of Political Identities and Popular Uprisings in the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2016) and author of Defining Iran: Politics of Resistance (Routledge, 2011).