Kayhan Nejad is an historian and specialist of international relations. His research interests span nationalism, revolution, socialism, and anti-socialisms between the territories of the former Soviet Union and the greater Middle East.

Nejad is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Nizami Ganjavi Centre, where he is completing a monograph on early twentieth-century revolutionary linkages between northern Iran, the Caucasus, and Anatolia. He is also drafting articles on contested nationalisms in post-Soviet Abkhazia and the international outreach of the pre-2001 Taliban.

Nejad received his Ph.D. from the Department of History at Yale University in 2021, and spent the 2021-22 academic year as a Senior Researcher with the Fulbright Scholar Program at Sabancı University in Istanbul. He is an ardent supporter of orangutan conservation efforts and the great ape personhood movement.