Armín Fardis is a social historian, writer, and educator residing in Northern California.

Armín’s work uses history and sociology to examine traditions of anticolonial rebellion in the United States and beyond, the Black Radical Tradition, transnational histories of colonial statecraft, carceral technologies and counterinsurgency, and the intersections between spirituality and revolutionary social movements. He is currently a University of California Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Department and a graduate of the doctoral program in Africana Studies at Harvard University. In addition to his research at Harvard, Armín received a master’s degree in Historical Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Throughout his time in academia, Armín has worked with non-profit and grassroots organizations in California’s Bay Area as both a teacher and researcher for the Prison University Project and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Armín was born in Iran and grew up in Berkeley, California.

arminfardis@ucsc.edu