Mohammad Ataie is a lecturer in History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His research explores the intersection between revolutions, transnationalism, and Muslim clerical networks, with a focus on the global impact of the Iran 1978-79 revolution. Currently, he is working on his book manuscript, 'Clerics In Revolt: Exporting the Iranian Revolution and the Transnationalization of the Revolutionary Guards,’ which brings together exclusive oral histories and research into public and private archives in Iran and Lebanon.