Naysan Adlparvar, PhD, is an undergraduate capstone faculty member at the Jackson School of Global Affairs (2024-2025). He also advises the UN’s Crisis Bureau.

Previously, Naysan was a postdoctoral fellow with both Yale’s Anthropology Department (2018-2020) and Yale’s Council on Middle East Studies (2016-18). He was also a visiting academic at Oxford University’s Middle East Centre for Fall 2018. While at Yale, Naysan taught courses on U-led interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Society and Politics of the Middle East. His research interests include issues linked to humanitarianism and social relations in conflict-affected contexts. Recent publications focus on civil-military information sharing in Yemen and Syria, and integration of Afghan refugees in both the United States and upon return to Afghanistan.

Naysan has spent over a decade working with NGOs and the UN. This included undertaking research and providing technical guidance to UNDP in Afghanistan, Iraq and Jordan on issues linked to governance, poverty reduction, gender and private sector development. His most recent work with the UN includes advising the UN Crisis Bureau on global governance and peacebuilding issues.

Naysan holds a PhD in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at Sussex University (UK), a MSc with honors in Applied Development Studies from the University of Reading (UK) and BSc in Applied Psychology from the University of Durham (UK).