Afshin Marashi is an American

historian A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past and is regarded as an authority on it. Historians are concerned with the continuous, methodical narrative and research of past events as relating to the human species; as well as the ...

, with a focus on modern

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) and also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Iraq to the west, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia to the northwest, the Caspian Sea to the north, Turkmenistan to the nort ...

. He is a professor of history at the

University of Oklahoma The University of Oklahoma (OU) is a Public university, public research university in Norman, Oklahoma, United States. Founded in 1890, it had existed in Oklahoma Territory near Indian Territory for 17 years before the two territories became the ...

. He is the current holder of the Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History. He received his bachelor's degree in

political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and Power (social and political), power, and the analysis of political activities, political philosophy, political thought, polit ...

in 1992 from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

, and his PhD from the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

in 2003. He has worked at the

University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...

and

California State University, Sacramento California State University, Sacramento (CSUS, Sacramento State, or informally Sac State) is a public university in Sacramento, California, United States. Founded in 1947 as Sacramento State College, it is part of the California State Universit ...

in the past. In addition to English, he has a reading/speaking command of Persian, and a reading command of Turkish, French and Spanish.

Selected works

* ''Nationalizing Iran: Culture, power, and the state, 1870–1941'' by Marashi, Afshin, University of California, Los Angeles, 2003, 339 pages; 3081179 * ''Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity'' (University of Texas Press, co-editor, 2014) * ''Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South'' (University of Texas Press, co-editor of the book series, 2020-)

References

University of Oklahoma faculty American people of Iranian descent University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Kansas faculty California State University, Sacramento faculty 21st-century American historians Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 20th-century births {{US-historian-stub