Nikki R. Keddie (née Anita Ragozin, August 30, 1930) is an American scholar of Eastern,

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

, and

women's history Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievement over a period of ...

. She is

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of History at

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Biography

Keddie was born in

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. She received her B.A. at

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

, her M.A. from

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

and her Ph.D. from the

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. She has taught at

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and

Scripps College Scripps College is a Private university, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in Claremont, California. It was founded as a member of the Claremont Colleges in 1 ...

in Claremont, California, before joining

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, where she taught mainly

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ern and Iranian history and eventually became full professor.

Recognition

* 1994 Elected a fellow of the

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* 2001 Mentoring award of

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, which also made her an honorary fellow in 2003 * 2002 Award for scholarly distinction from the

American Historical Association The American Historical Association (AHA) is the oldest professional association of historians in the United States and the largest such organization in the world. Founded in 1884, the AHA works to protect academic freedom, develop professional s ...

* 2002

Persian History The history of Iran is intertwined with the history of a larger region known as Greater Iran, comprising the area from Anatolia in the west to the borders of Ancient India and the Syr Darya in the east, and from the Caucasus and the Eurasian Step ...

award from the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation * 2004

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* 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award for

Iranian Studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

from the International Society for Iranian Studies

Works

* ''Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics'', eds. Rudi Matthee and Nikki R.Keddie (University of Washington Press, 2011). * ''Women in the Middle East: Past and Present'',

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial Colleges, fourth-oldest ins ...

Press, 2007. * ''Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution'',

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

Press, 2003. * ''Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan''. Mazda, Costa Mesa, CA, 1999. * ''Debating gender, debating sexuality''. NYU Press, 1996 * ''Debating Revolutions''. NYU Press, 1995. * ''Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution'', Macmillan, London, and New York,

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(NYU) Press, 1995 * ''Roots of Revolution: An Interpretive History of Modern Iran'',

Press, 1981. * '' Iran: Religion, Politics and Society'', Frank Cass, London, 1980 * ''Sayyid Jamal al-Din "al-Afghani": A Political Biography'',

Press, Berkeley, 1972. * ''An Islamic Response to Imperialism'',

Press, 1968. * ''Religion and Rebellion in Iran: The Tobacco Protest of 1891–92'', Frank Cass, 1966.

References

External links

Autogiographical interview from ''Women in the Middle East''

UCLA bio
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