MaziarBehrooz
San Francisco State University
History Department
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94132

Education:

1993 Ph.D, University of Californian at Los Angeles; History of the Near East 1500-Present, special concentration: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Iran.

1989 C.Phil, University of California at Los Angeles

1986 M.A., San Francisco State University; History of Modern Europe

1982 B.A., Saint Mary's College of California, History-Government

Minor Fields:

History of the Near East 500-1500

History of Modern Europe

History of Modern Russia

Academic Positions:

2007-Present: Associate Professor, History Department, San Francisco State University.

2002-2007: Assistant Professor, History Department, SFSU.

2001-2002: Assistant Professor, History Department, Bridgewater State College.

1995-2001: Lecturer, History Department, San Francisco State University.

1998-2001: Research Fellow, International and Area Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Spring 1999: Visiting Lecturer, Department of History, Stanford University.

Fall 1998: Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, St Mary's College of California, Moraga, CA.

1995-1998: Visiting Lecturer, History Department, University of California, Berkeley.

1992-1993: Teaching Fellow, Department of History, UCLA.

1990-1992: Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UCLA.

1988-1993: Research Assistant, G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies, UCLA.

1987: Research Assistant, Professor Nikki R. Keddie.

Other Professional Position:

1988-2009: Contributor, the Echo of Iran, Echo Publications, London and Tehran.

1989-1991: Circulation Editor, JUSUR, the UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.

1989-1991: Graduate Student Representative, Faculty Advisory Committee, G.E von Grunebaum Center for Near Eastern Studies.

Courses Taught:

Graduate Seminar: Modernity and the Islamic World

Upper Division:

Pro-Seminar: Topics in the History of the Middle East and Islamic Movements

History of the Islamic World I 500-1700

History of the Islamic World II 1700-Present

History of Iran and Afghanistan 1500-present

Imperialism and Nationalism in the Near East

Historiography of the Middle East

History of the Soviet Union

Anthropology of the Middle East

Lower Division:

Survey of Near Eastern History 500-1800

Survey of Near Eastern History 500-present

Western Civilization I (to 1500s)

Western Civilization II (from 1500s)

World History I (to 1500)

World History II (from 1500) 

Books:

Ta’amolati piramun-e tarikh-e shureshiyan-e armankhah dar Iran. [Perspectives on the History of Rebels with a Cause in Iran], Tehran: Akhtaran publishers, 2006

Rebels with a Cause: The Failure of the Left in Iran. London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 1999. 

Turkish translation of above title:  Nasil Yapilamadi: Iran'da Solun Tenilgisi, Ercument Ozkaya, Trans. Ankara: EPOS, 2006.

Persian translation of above title: Shureshiyan armankhah: nakami-ye chap dar Iran, Mahdi Partovi, trans., Tehran: Qoqnus Publications, 2001.

Recent Papers and Book Chapters:

“Conflict in the Caucasus: A Military Perspective on Russo-Iranian Wars,” in Iranian Studies, Elena Andreeva and Maziar Behrooz, ed., 2013 (forthcoming)

“From Confidence to Apprehension: Early Iranian Interaction with Russia,” in Iran and Russia, Stephanie Cronin, ed., (Routledge, 2012-forthcoming).

"Maryam Firuz," Encyclopedia Iranica, (New York, Syracuse University Press, 2012).

 “Iran after Revolution,” in The Oxford Handbook of Iranian History, Touraj Daryaee, ed., (Oxford University Press, 2012).

"Reflections on Iran’s Prison System during the Montazeri Years (1985-1988)," Iran Analysis Quarterly, Vol.2, No.3, winter

(January-March) 2005

"The 1953 Coup in Iran and the Legacy of the Tudeh," in, Mark Gasiorowski and Malcolm Byrne, eds., Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran, (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2004)

"Iranian Revolution and the Legacy of the Guerrilla Movement," in Stephanie Cronin, ed. Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on The Iranian Left (London: Routledge Curzon, 2004)

“Golesorkhi,” Encyclopedia Iranica, Vol. XI, (New York: Bibliotheca Persica Press, 2002), 118-119

"Tudeh Factionalism and the 1953 Coup in Iran," in International Journal of Middle East Studies, 33 (2001), 363-382.

Book Reviews and Translations:

Review of Steven R. Ward, Immortals: A Military History of Iranand its Armed Forces. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2009, in The Journal of Military History, Vol. 74 #2, April 2010.

Review of Afshin Marashi, Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power and the State 1870-1940, Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2008, in Middle East Journal, Vol. 63, No. 1, Winter 2009.

Review of H.E. Chehabi, Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years, London: I.B. Tauris, 2006, in IJMES, Vol. 41. No. 2, May 2009.

Review of Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Mahjoob Zaeiri, Iran and the Rise of its Neoconservatives: the Politics of Tehran’s Silent Revolution, London, New York: I.B. Tauris, 2007, in Iranian Studies, Vol. 42, No. 2, September 2009.

Review of Ali M. Ansari, Modern Iran since 1921: The Pahlavis and After.

New York: Longman, 2003 in American Historical Review, October 2004.

Review\of Mehdi Moslem, Factional Politics in Post-Khomeini Iran, Syracuse, 2002, in Iranian Studies, Vol. 39, No.3, September 2006.

Review of Dariush Zahedi, the Iranian Revolution Then and Now: Indications of Regime Instability in International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 33, No. 4, November 2001.

Review of Ervand Abrahamian, Maqalati Dar Jame'eh Shenasi-ye Iran [Articles on Iran's Sociology], Soheila Torrabi-farsani, trans. (Tehran: Pazhuhesh and Shirazeh Publishes, 1997), in Iranian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, spring 1999.

Review of Asef Bayat, Street Politics: Poor People's Movement in Iran, (New York: Columbia University Press, 1997), in Iranian Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, Spring 1999. 

Review of John L. Esposito, ed. The Iranian Revolution: Its Global Impact, (Miami: Florida University Press, 1990), in Iranian Studies, Vol. XXIV, No.1-4, 1991.

Persian translation of Nikki R. Keddie, "Material Culture and Geography: Toward a Holistic Comparative History of the Middle East," in Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 26, No. 4, October 1984, published in Goft va Gu (Tehran), No.8, Summer 1995.

Languages: English, Persian, French (reading knowledge).

Professional Affiliations:

The Association for the study of Persianate Societies
Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS)