BIOGRAPHY:

Dr. Govand Khalid Azeez is a Lecturer in the Department of Modern History, Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney. He specializes in political theory and philosophy (including epistemology and theories of subjectivity), political economy (focusing on Marxist and Neo-Marxist methods), and the politics of social change (including social movement and revolutions). In 2016, Dr. Azeez was a Visiting Fellow in the Department of History at Harvard University, Cambridge. He was subsequently nominated for the Junior Fellowship in the Society of Fellows at Harvard University by his doctoral thesis examiner A.J. Meyer Emeritus Professor of Middle East History Roger Owen. In 2014, Dr. Azeez was a Research Fellow in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies (MESAS) at Columbia University, New York. Dr. Azeez has published extensively in journals like Research and Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy, Middle East Critique, the Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Iberian and Latin American, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies and Critique amongst others.

Dr. Azeez’s current research interests include an examination of how the local and global symbiotic relationship between capitalism and the state is manufacturing novel technologies of exploitation, inequality and domination, as well as different political structures, socio-economic organisations and subjectivities.


TEACHING:

POIR8040 Research Methods in International Relations
POIR8410 Understanding World Politics: Theoretical Approaches
POIR7000 Key Questions in Political Science and Public Policy
POIR1080 Introduction to Global Politics

SUPERVISION:

Ellen Kirkpatrick, 'The Pandemic and Capitalist systemic Crises'