The Making of Iranian Modernity

The Making of Iranian Modernity brings together a diverse array of scholars from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds and areas of research specialization to celebrate Houchang E. Chehabi, one of the leading scholars in the field of Iranian Studies. Since the 1980s, Chehabi’s interdisciplinary body of work has made major contributions both to the study of modern Iran’s social and cultural history, as well as to the understanding of Iran’s broader political evolution and place in the world. All contributors to this volume have been inspired by Houchang Chehabi’s work and have benefited from his mentorship. On the occasion of his retirement, these essays measure his ongoing influence in shaping scholarship and serve as a token of collective gratitude for his contributions.

Roham Alvandi is the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah and Associate Professor of International History and Director of the Iranian History Initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, he worked on the strategic planning staff in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Persian Studies, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Asiatic Society.

Afshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Iranian Studies. He is the author of Exile and the Nation and Nationalizing Iran and is the co-editor of Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity.

David Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science and recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. His books include Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, which was awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, and Islam and the European Empires, as editor.