Kaveh Yazdani was born in Tehran and raised in Paris and Berlin. He received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Osnabrück in 2014 (summa cum laude). Yazdani was Visiting Residential Fellow at the Warwick Institute of Advanced Study in 2017. Shortly after, he accepted a faculty position at the University of Bielefeld. There, he taught courses in economic and social history between 2017 and 2020 before joining the University of Connecticut in 2021. His publications includes a monograph titled India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th Century), Leiden/Boston: Brill 2017 and an edited volume (together with Dilip Menon) titled Capitalisms: Towards a Global History, Oxford University Press: Delhi 2020. He has authored many articles amongst them, Reading Marx in the Divergence Debate, co-authored with Nasser Mohajer, published in What is left of Marxism , De Gruyter, Berlin, 2020