Siavash Saffari (سیاوش صفاری) is Professor of West Asian Studies at Seoul National University. He completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Alberta (2013), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Middle Eastern Studies at Columbia University (2016). His work is primarily in modern Iranian intellectual history, modern Islamic political thought, and postcolonial and decolonial theory. His peer-reviewed articles have appeared in journals including: Asian Journal of Political Science; Politics, Religion & Ideology; Religions; Philosophy and Global Affairs; Iranian Studies; Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East; Review of Radical Political Economics; Middle East Critique; Sociology of Islam; and Contemporary Islam. His monograph, Beyond Shariati: Modernity, Cosmopolitanism and Islam in Iranian Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017), was the co-recipient of the 2018 Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award from the American Political Science Association. He is also the co-editor of Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) and Spirit and Defiance: Ali Shariati in Translation (forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press).