Eli S. Zadeh is a historian of art and visual culture, working on the representations of the body and identity in the American art of the late twentieth century. His interdisciplinary research and pedagogical interests cut across several fields of inquiry, most notably the social history of art and queer theory. He teaches courses on the history of modern art, history of photography and avant-garde film, and arts of the United States, striving to develop approaches that enable the Americanist field to be more responsive to the global turn. He received his Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2024.