Dr Rowena Abdul Razak teaches the following courses at undergraduate level:

HY113 - From Empire to Independence: The Extra-European World in the Twentieth Century

HY206 - The International History of the Cold War, 1945-1989

Articles:

• “Resource imperialism and resistance: Labour, security and social reproduction after Iranian oil nationalization.” Co-written with Mattin Biglari. Journal of Energy History Special Issue, “Hydrocarbons and societies: histories of labour, social relations, and industrial culture in the oil and gas industry.” Article accepted and currently in production.
• “Oil heritage in Iran and Malaysia: The Future Energy Legacy in the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean.” Co-written with Asma Mehan. New Metropolitan Perspectives. May 2022.  
• “Activism in Isolation : The Tudeh Party in British Left Discourse during the Long 1980s.” International Labour & Working-Class History. Article accepted and currently in production. 
• “Oil, Labour and Empire: Abadan in WWII Occupied Iran.” Co-written with Rasmus Elling. British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. July 2021.  
•  “Escape from Isolation: Iranian–Malaysian Relations during the Mahathir Years, 1981–2003.” Association of Iranian Studies Newsletter. Spring 2019. 
• “The British, the Tudeh party and the 1947 World Federation of Trade Unions’ Visit: battle for labor reform in Iran.” Labor History. April 2019. 
• “When Guns are not Enough: Britain’s Response to Nationalism in Bahrain, 1958–1963.” Journal of Arabian Studies. July 2017.  
• ““But what would they think of us?” Propaganda and the Manipulation of the Anglo–Soviet Occupation, 1941–1946”. Iranian Studies. September 2016.  

Chapters in books: 

• “Convenient Comrades: Reassessing the Early Relationship between the Hizb-i Tudeh and the Soviet Union during the British-Soviet Occupation of Iran, 1941–1945.” ‘Russians in Iran: Diplomacy and Power in the Qajar Era and Beyond’. Edited book. January 2018.
  

Selection:

• Seaker at Association for Iranian Studies Conference on the topic of Iran and the United Nations. University of Salamanca. September 2022.
• Seaker at 80th Anniversary of the Tudeh Party of Iran. University of St Andrews. March 2021.
• Speaker at WOCMES on the topic, “Between Strategic Purposes and Imperial Vision: The Impact of the British-Soviet Occupation of Iran, 1941-1946”, University of Seville. July 2018.
• Speaker at History of War Conference on Iran and the early Cold War, King’s College London, April 2018.
• Speaker at BRISMES Postgraduate Conference on the topic, Escape from Isolation: Iran-Malaysia Relations during the Mahathir Years, 1981-2003,University of Edinburgh. July 2017.
• Speaker at Association for Iranian Studies Biennial Conference on Soviet policy and the Tudeh Party, 1941­–1946. University of Vienna, August 2016.
• Speaker at Institute of Historical Research on the topic of British policy during the Iranian oil strikes of 1946, IHR, April 2016.

• 2022: Highly Commended, LSE Class Teacher Awards
• 2018/19: Received an LSE Teaching award 
• 2015/16: Hadid Scholarship, Middle East Centre, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.