Ervand Abrahamian
Iranian-American historian (born 1940) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ervand Abrahamian[lower-alpha 1] (born 1940) is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is widely regarded as one of the leading historians of modern Iran.
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Ervand Abrahamian | |
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Born | Ervand Vahan Abrahamian[7 1940 (age 83–84) Tehran, Iran |
Citizenship | United States |
Occupation | Historian |
Spouse | Mary Nolan |
Children | 2 |
Academic background | |
Education | Oxford University (BA 1963, MA 1968) |
Alma mater | Columbia University (MA 1966, PhD 1969) |
Thesis | Social Bases of Iranian Politics: The Tudeh Party, 1941–53 (1969) |
Academic advisors | Keith Thomas[1] |
Influences | Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson[1] |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Iranian studies, political history, social history[2] |
School or tradition | Marxist historiography,[2] Neo-Marxism[3][4][5] |
Institutions | Baruch College Graduate Center, CUNY Princeton University New York University Oxford University |
Doctoral students | Touraj Atabaki[6] |
Main interests | Qajar dynasty, 1953 coup d'état, 1979 Revolution, Islamic Republic |
Notable works | A History of Modern Iran (2008) Khomeinism (1993) Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982) |
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