Maziar Behrooz, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
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
1978, High School Diploma, TASIS England, Thorpe Surry, UK

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-Present: 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

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.

Papers and Book Chapters:

“Iran after Revolution,” in From Antiquity to the Present: A History of Iranian Civilization, Touraj Daryaee and Afshin Marashi, ed., London: IB Tauris. (Forthcoming)

"Siyasat-e America dar barabar-e Iran" [On US Policy toward Iran] Nameh (Tehran), no. 50, June 2006 (Khordad 1385)

“Mo’zel-e rabete-ye Iran va America” [The Problematic of Iran-US Relations] in Nameh (Tehran), no.39, July 2005/Tir 1384, at:

http://www.nashrieh-nameh.com/article.php?articleID=408

"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.

"Soluk-e gom shodeh: sarnevesht-e sosiyal demokrasi dar Iran," [The Lost Path: The Fate of Social Democrasy in Iran], in Arash (Paris), No.s 75-76, February 2001, 100-102

"The Iranian Revolution and the Failure of the Left," in Rudi Matthee and Beth Baron, eds., Religion and Society in the Middle East: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, (Costa Mesa: Mazda Press, 2000)

"President Khatami's Third Year: The Long Hot Tehran Summer of 1999," in The Echo of Iran, no.130, July 1999

"Islamic State and the Crisis of Marja'iyat in Iran," in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. XVI, no.2, fall 1996

"The Left's Impact on the Islamic Republic," in the Echo of Iran, no.86, May 1995

"Iran's Response to the Rise of Nationalism in the Caucasus 1988-1993," in The Echo of Iran, No.s 72-73, February-March 1994

"Factionalism in Iran under Khomeini," in Middle Eastern Studies, vol.27, no.4, October, 1991, reprinted in, the Echo of Iran, No.s 55&56, August-September 1992

"The IRI in the Aftermath of Fourth Majles Election," in The Echo of Iran, no.12, December 1992

"Azarbaijan: A Historical Background," in The Echo of Iran, An Independent and Objective Review of Iranian Affairs, no.26, February 1990

"Iran's Fadayan 1971-1988, A Case Study in Iranian Marxism," in JUSUR, UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, vol.6, Fall 1990.  Reprinted in: The Echo of Iran,no.s 10,11,12 (October, November, December 1991)

"Seyr-e demokrasi dar shoravi va eslahat-e Gorbachev", [The Process of Democracy in the Soviet Union and Gorbachev's Reforms], in Kankash, A Persian Journal of History and Politics, winter 1990

"Trends in the Foreign Policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran 1979-1988," in Nikki R. Keddie & Mark Gasiorowski, ed., Neither East Nor West, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990)

"Haqaieq-e tarikhi piramun-e enhelal-e majles-e mo'asesan che hastand?" [What are the Historical Truths about the Abolition of the Constitutional Assembly?], in Ketab-e Jom'eh-a, No.s 14&15, summer 1989

"The Iran-Iraq War: Causes and Prospects", in Free Association, A Student-Run Independent Newspaper, December 1987

Print Media Interviews:

Interview with monthly Nameh (Tehran), on “Democracy on Three Continents,” no.40, August 2005 (Mordad 1384) at:

http://www.nashrieh-nameh.com/article.php?articleID=431

Interview with monthly Nameh (Tehran), on “the Left in 20^th Century Iran,” no. 31, September 2004 (Mordad-Sharivar 1383) at:

http://www.nashrieh-nameh.com/articlea.php?mID=8&articleID=168

Conference Presentations:

“Leftist Interpretation of Iranian Revolution: Then and Now,” at the Sixth Biennial of Iranian Studies panel “The Politics of Interpreting the Iranian Revolution: Then and Now,” SOAS, London August 3-5. 2006.

“Perspectives on Iran’s Political Prisoners during the Montazeri Years (1985-88),” at MESA panel “Responses to State Terror: Twentieth-Century Iran’s Political Prisoners,” San Francisco November 20-23, 2004.

“Social Democracy in Iran: Reflections and Prospects,” presented at MESA panel "Issues in Contemporary Iran,” Washington D.C., November 24, 2002

“Current Composition and Attitude of Political Groups” presented at MESA panel "How Could an Evil Regime be Changed,” Washington D.C., November 23, 2002.

"The 1953 Coup in Iran and the Legacy of the Tudeh," in Conference on Mohammad Mosaddeq and the 1953 Coup in Iran, St Antony’s College, Oxford, June 8-10, 2002.

"The Iranian Left and the Legacy of the Guerrilla Movement," presented at Conference on Historical, Cultural and Intellectual Perspectives on the Left in Iran, University of London (School Of Oriental and African Studies), London, June 30, 2000.

"The Tudeh Party in the Early 1950s," presented at International Seminar on Iran and the Great Powers, Center for Documents and Diplomatic History, Tehran, June 7-8, 2000.

"Portrait of Five Revolutionaries," presented at Middle East Studies Association panel, Revolutionary Thought and Policy in Twentieth Century Iran, Washington D.C., November 1999

"The Tudeh Party and the 1953 Coup in Iran," presented at MESA panel "Pahlavi Iran," San Francisco, November 1997.

"The Left's Impact on the Islamic Republic," presented at MESA panel "The Political Culture of Iranian Regimes and Opposition (1970s-80s)," Phoenix, Arizona, November 19-22, 1994. 

"Iran's Response to the Rise of Nationalism in the Caucasus 1988-1993," presented at MESA panel "Iran and the Emergence of the New Republics in Central Asia and Caucasus," Triangle Park, North Carolina, November 1993.

"Iranian Marxists and the Working Class (1979-1985)," presented at MESA panel "Middle Class Status and Leftist Aspirations in Middle eastern Political Organizations", Washington D.C., November 1991.

Book Reviews and Translations:

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

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

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

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.

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.

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. 

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:

Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)

International Society of Iranian Studies (ISIS)