Kamran Matin

Kamran Matin is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex, UK, specialising in historical sociology, international theory, nationalism, and Iranian and Kurdish politics and history. His current research focuses on the theory of ‘uneven and combined development’ (UCD), nations and nationalism, and non-Western colonialism. He is the co-author of Queer Identities in Migration: Iranian Journeys (Bristol University Press, 2026), the author of Recasting Iranian Modernity: International Relations and Social Change (Routledge, 2013), and the co-editor of Historical Sociology and World History: Uneven and Combined Development over the Longue Durée (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2016). He has also published numerous articles, commentaries, and op-eds on Kurdish and Iranian politics. He is a non-resident fellow at the Kurdish Peace Institute in Washington, DC, and a research associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA) in Hamburg.