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Mehrzad Boroujerdi

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Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts, Science, and Education

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8108-3837
1990 …2023

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Mehrzad Boroujerdi is Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Previously he was Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Tech, and before that professor of political science at Syracuse University.

Boroujerdi is the author or co-author of four books: Post-revolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook, published in 2018; Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft, published in 2013; Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani (I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity), published in 2010; and Iranian Intellectuals and the West: Tormented Triumph of Nativism, published in 1996.

Dr. Boroujerdi has been President of the Association for Iranian Studies, a fellow of the American Council on Education, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University and a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin, a visiting scholar at UCLA, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.), and a Co-PI of Iran Data Portal. He has been the recipient of grants from Carnegie Corporation, the Henry Luce Foundation, Institute of International Education, Princeton University, Social Science Research Council, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, United States Department of Education, United States Institute of Peace, and the Violet Jabara Charitable Trust .

Dr. Boroujerdi is frequently consulted by both government entities and such national and international media outlets as Al Jazeera, Associated Press, Economist, Guardian, LA Times, NPR, New York Times, Reuters, Spiegel, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post.

He earned a Ph.D. in international relations from The American University (Washington, D.C.) in 1990, a master's degree in political science from Northeastern University in 1985 and a bachelor's degree in political science from Boston University in 1983.

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Education/Academic qualification

PhD in International Relations, American University

… → 1990

MS in Political Science, Northeastern University

… → 1985

BS in Political Science, Boston University

… → 1983

Research Interests

  • Middle Eastern Politics
  • Iranian History
  • Foreign Policy

Disciplines

  • Islamic World and Near East History
  • Political History
  • Near and Middle Eastern Studies

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