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Professor Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was a Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech (2019-2022) and before that Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University (1992-2019).
Professor Boroujerdi has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies, a fellow of the American Council on Education, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting scholar at UCLA, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.), and a Co-PI of Iran Data Portal.
He is frequently consulted by both government entities and such national and international media outlets as Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Economist, Guardian, LA Times, NPR, New York Times, Reuters, Spiegel, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Expertise Details:
His research focuses on twentieth and twenty-first century Iranian intellectual history, with particular emphasis on historical identity, encounters with modernity, and political reform. He also specializes in Iranian domestic and international politics since 1900.
Publications:
- Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press, 1996)
- Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani [in Persian],(Tehran, 2010)
- Co-author of Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook (Syracuse University Press, 2018)
- Editor of Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft (Syracuse University Press, 2013)
- Articles have appeared in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East, International Third World Studies Journal and Review, Iranian Journal of International Affairs, Iranian Studies, Foreign Service Journal, Journal of Peace Research, Middle East Economic Survey, and Syracuse Law Review.