Reza Afshari is professor of history at

Pace University Pace University is a private university with its main campus in New York City and secondary campuses in Westchester County, New York. It was established in 1906 by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace as a business school. Pace ...

. He received his Ph.D. at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public state-related research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist minister Russell Conwell and his congregation Grace Baptist Church of Philadelphia then called Ba ...

. His studies center on

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

, Islamic politics, and

Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

cultural relativism Cultural relativism is the idea that a person's beliefs and practices should be understood based on that person's own culture. Proponents of cultural relativism also tend to argue that the norms and values of one culture should not be evaluated ...

in particular.

Representative Publications

* “On Historiography of Human Rights Discourse,” Human Rights Quarterly, 29 (February 2007) 1-67. * “Discourse and Practice of Human Rights Violations of Iranians of the Baha’i Faith in the Islamic Republic of Iran,” a chapter in a book, edited by Dominic Brookshaw of McGill University, Routledge, London, 2007. * Human Rights in Iran: the Abuse of Cultural Relativism, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Hardcover, pp. 359

Professional affiliations

Middle East Studies Association of America Middle East Studies Association (often referred to as MESA) is a learned society, and according to its website, "a non-profit association that fosters the study of the Middle East, promotes high standards of scholarship and teaching, and encoura ...

, Committee for Academic Freedom in the Middle East and North Africa

External links

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with Pace University

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Living people 21st-century Iranian historians Pace University faculty Islam and politics Middle Eastern studies in the United States Temple University alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{Iran-historian-stub