Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi

Position
Professor of Near Eastern Studies
Role
Chair, Near Eastern Studies Department
Title
Director, Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies
Office Phone
Office
111 Jones Hall
Bio/Description

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He joined the Department of Near Eastern Studies in February 2019 after fourteen years at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where he was a professor of history and sociology as well as the Director of the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies He is the author of three books on different aspects and historical context of the Iranian revolution of 1979 and its aftermath: Islam and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Abdolkarim Soroush and the Religious Foundations of Political Reform, London, New York:  I. B. Tauris (Palgrave-Macmillan), 2008; Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016; and Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution, New York, London: O/R Books (Counterpoint), 2016. He has also coedited a special issue of Radical History Review (No. 105, Fall 2009), The Iranian Revolution Turns Thirty, Duke University Press; and also a special issue of Iran-Nāmag (vol. 3, no. 2, Summer 2018), Michel Foucault and the Historiography of Modern Iran. He has written extensively on the topics of social theory and Islamist political thought in different journals and book chapters. Currently, he is working on a project on Mystical Modernity, a comparative study of philosophy of history and political theory of Walter Benjamin and Ali Shariati. Prof. Ghamari assumed the directorship of the Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmini Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies in fall 2019.

Selected Publications

 

Remembering Akbar cover

Remembering Akbar: Inside the Iranian Revolution
New York, London: O/R Books (Counterpoint), 2016.


 

Foucault in Iran cover

 Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution after the Enlightenment
Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2016.


 

Islam and Dissent cover

Islam and Dissent in Post-Revolutionary Iran: Abdolkarim Soroush and the Religious Foundations of Political Reform
London, New York:  I. B. Tauris (Palgrave-Macmillan), 2008.