Contributors
- Contributors
Janet Afary is an associate professor of history and women's studies at Purdue University and is president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004-2006).
Mangol Bayat is an independent scholar and has published books and articles on the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Iran. She is currently completing her new volume, "Iran's First Revolution: Shi'ism and the Constitutional Revolution. vol. 2: The Period of the Second Majlis."
Houri Berberian is an associate professor of history and director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program at California State University, Long Beach. She is the author of Armenians and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution: "The Love for Freedom Has No Fatherland" (Westview, 2001).
Faridullah Bezhan is a research fellow at Monash Asia Institute, Monash University, Australia. He has a BA and an MA from the University of Kabul, a MPhil from Delhi University, and a PhD from Monash University. He taught for over ten years at the University of Kabul. He has written several books and articles published in various journals on the history and literature of Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia.
Mansour Bonakdarian is a visiting professor at Hofstra University, where he teaches British, imperial, Middle Eastern, and comparative history. He is the author of the forthcoming Britain and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911: Foreign Policy, Imperialism, and Dissent (Syracuse University Press, 2005) and a member of the Radical History Review editorial collective. His current projects include a collected volume of essays (with Ian Christopher Fletcher) on the First Universal Races Congress (London, 1911) and a monograph on confluences of nationalism, internationalism, and transnationalism in India, Iran, and Ireland from 1905 to 1919.
Polly Datta has recently completed her PhD dissertation, "Centripetal Bias in the Federal Fiscal Relations in India: Growing Regional Disparity and Perception of Discrimination—A Case Study of West Bengal," at the South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Her recently published articles include "Trends of West Bengal's Own Revenue Mobilisation during the Last Two Decades" (Indian Journal of Public Administration, 2004). She is an honorary visiting research scholar at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata, West Bengal, where she is about to commence field research on the potential conditions for enhancing the financial self-sufficiency of village-level governments in West Bengal through the imposition of user charges or optional fees.
Ali Gheissari is a professor of history at the University of San Diego and is the author of Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1998). He has published broadly in English and Persian on the intellectual history of modern Iran.
Arash Khazeni is completing a dissertation in the history department at Yale University titled "Opening the Land: Tribes, State, and Ethnicity in Iran, 1722-1911." Since 2003 he has been an assistant professor of history at Claremont McKenna College. He is currently working on a history of the Turkmen steppes.
Sherry Lowrance is an assistant professor of international affairs at the University of Georgia. She is currently working on a book-length project concerning the mobilization of identity and unconventional political participation in Israel.
Wisam Mansour is an associate professor of English literature at Fatih University in Istanbul. He previously taught at various universities in Jordan, Cyprus, and Turkey. He is the author of numerous articles on English and Arabic literatures.
Susynne McElrone is a doctoral student in the history and Middle East and Islamic studies joint program at New York University.
Mohammad Nafissi is a senior lecturer in political economy at London Metropolitan University. He has written in Persian and English on democracy, development, Islam, and modern ideologies and thinkers from a comparative perspective. His most recent publication is Ancient [End Page 516] Athens and Modern Ideology: Value, Theory and Evidence in Historical Sciences (Institute of Classical Studies, 2005).
R. K. Ramazani is the Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Virginia where he has published works on the Middle East, particularly Iran and the Persian Gulf region, since 1954. He has recently contributed to and coedited The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (Palgrave, 2004).
Stephen Sheehi is an assistant professor in...
