Kevan Harris
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California-Los Angeles
Chapter Member: Los Angeles Unified SSN
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About Kevan
Harris researches development and social policy in the global South. His research focuses on welfare projects in middle and low-income countries, business-state relations in Iran, the history of social policy in West Asia and North Africa, and occupational and class mobility in Iran before and after 1979. In addition to his research, Harris is on the Editorial Committee of the Middle East Research and Information Project, and is a UCLA faculty advisor to the Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Program on Central Asia, the Asia Pacific Center, and the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History.
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Opinion: "How Years of Increasing Labor Unrest Signaled Iran's Latest Protest Wave," Kevan Harris (with ), Washington Post, January 19, 2018.
Research discussed by , in "Iran's Protesters Want One Thing: Accountability," New York Times, January 6, 2018.
Quoted by Scott Peterson in "In Iran’s Surprise Uprising of the Poor, Dents to Revolution’s Legitimacy," Christian Science Monitor, January 5, 2018.
Quoted by Stella Morgana in "What Do Iranians Want? Better Salaries, More Jobs and Safe Working Conditions," The Conversation, May 17, 2017.
Quoted by Dennis Romero in "L.A.'s Jewish and Muslim Iranians Have Common Ground in the Age of Trump," L.A. Weekly, February 3, 2017.