Ali Banuazizi

Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, M.I.T.

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Current Position:
Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Research Fellow, Center for International Studies, M.I.T.

Educational Background:
Ph.D., 1968, Yale University
M.A., 1965, New School for Social Research, New York
B.S., 1963, University of Michigan

Current Research Interests:
Intellectuals and politics in contemporary Iran and the Middle East; socioeconomic inequality, class, and social mobility; cultural identity, nationalism, and religion; U.S.-Iran relations.

Positions Held in Professional Associations & Editorships
2013-16 Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
2004-05 President, Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA)
1998-99 President, Association for Iranian Studies
1994-15 Member, Editorial Board, Iran-Nameh
1983-87 Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Middle East Studies
1968-82 Founding Editor, Journal of Iranian Studies
2022. Editor-in-chief of the Freedom of Thought Journal

Not completed

Selected Publications:

“The Crossing Paths of Religion and Nationalism in Contemporary Iran.” In Nadim Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub Kevorkian, eds., When Politics are Sacralized: Comparative Perspectives on Religious Claims and Nationalism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp. 247-271.
Review Essay on Iraniyat, Melliyat, Qowmiyat [Iranianism, Nationalism, Ethnicism] by Ashgar Schirazi. Iranian Studies, 2019, 52 (5-6),1029-1040.
“Democracy and Democratization,” Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd Ed., Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Gale, 2016, pp. 289-291.
Tabaqat-e ejtema’i, dowlat va enqelab dar Iran [Social Classes, State and Revolution in Iran (with Ahmad Ashraf). Tehran: Nilufar Publications, 2008.
The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and Its Borderlands (coedited with M. Weiner). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press (and London: Tauris Publishers), 1994.
The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (edited with M. Weiner). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
Dar bare-e siasat va farhang [On Culture and Politics] (with Shahrokh Meskoob). Paris: Khavaran Publications, 1994.
The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics (coedited with M. Weiner). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
“Faltering Legitimacy: The Ruling Clerics and Civil Society in Contemporary Iran,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 1995, 8 (4), 563-578.
“The State, Classes and Modes of Mobilization in the Revolution in Iran” (with Ahmad Ashraf), State, Culture and Society, 1985, 1 (3), 3-40.
Shakhes-ha-ye ejtema’i Iran [Social Indicators for Iran]. Tehran: United Nations Development Program and the Plan and Budget Organization, 1978.