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Fields of interest: Near Eastern history; Social history; Women’s History; Comparative and World History; Photography I was born in Brooklyn, and attended the City and Country School and Horace-Mann Lincoln High School in Manhattan before going to Radcliffe College, (Magna cum laude, Modern European History and Literature, elected to Phi Beta Kappa in junior year). My thesis was on the Italian Socialist Party. Then I went to Stanford for a Modern European History M.A., with a thesis on the philosophy of history of Giambattista Vico. Then to U.C. Berkeley for my Ph.D., working in European and especially Middle Eastern History, with a dissertation, "The Impact of the West on Modern Iranian Social History." East and South Asia were other fields. After a year's research job on South Asia, and a general secondary credential, I became an instructor at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and then instructor, then assistant professor, at Scripps College in Claremont, CA, with my main teaching in their three-year Western Civilization program. In 1961 I became visiting assistant professor at UCLA, assistant professor in 1963 and then associate and full professor. At UCLA I have taught mainly Middle Eastern and Iranian history, and also courses on comparative revolution, comparative religious politics, and non-written sources and methodology in History teaching and research (covering photography, audio and videotaping, oral history and interviewing and some of the uses of the audiovisual potential of computers).
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1994 elected
a fellow of the ·
2001
mentoring award of Middle East Studies Association, which also made me an
honorary fellow in 2003. ·
2001 award
for scholarly distinction from the American Historical Association ·
2002 Persian
History award from the Encyclopedia Iranica
Foundation
·
In 2004 I won
the generous prize of the International Balzan
Foundation, half of which is devoted to others’ research and has enabled
me to bring two post-doctoral fellows in women’s studies to UCLA for
each of three years. The fellows for 2005-06 are Holly Shissler,
who will also teach two courses in History, and Nayereh
Tohidi, who will teach two courses in Women’s
Studies. 2006-07 fellows are Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi.
I
have had these major fellowships, in addition to several summer and
UCLA grants: AAUW (1954-55): Guggenheim (1963-64), SSRC (1959-60, 1966),
Rockefeller (1980, 1982; Bellagio, 1992); I was visiting scholar for
four months at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., in 1982,
and was associate professor, Harvard summer school, 1967 and visiting
professor, University of Rochester (1970), and University of Paris,
III (1976-78). I have spent a total of three years in Iran and have
done extensive research travel in Europe, the Middle East, East and
Southeast Asia, and Africa. I founded and edited the journal CONTENTION: DEBATES IN SOCIETY, CULTURE AND SCIENCE, 1991-96. In the last few years I have published books and three interrelated articles on comparative secularism and fundamentalism, worldwide. I have recent books on Iran and a 2007 book on the history of Middle Eastern women, having published previously on the subject, and in the past few years having published articles on women and fundamentalism worldwide, on Iranian women since 1979, and on the study of Middle Eastern Women’s History, as well as other articles listed below. Previous
to that I published several books about Iranian history and Sayyed Jamal ad-Din al-Afghani, and edited several more
about Middle Eastern Women, Religio-political
trends in I
was elected president, Middle East Studies Association, for 1980-81,
having previously served on its executive board and also that of the
Society for Iranian Studies. I have served on committees of these two
groups, and also of the AHA, UCLA, and several others. I am a fellow
of the In April 2000 I put on my fourth international conference (all published after editing), which in 2002, as edited by me and Rudi Matthee, was published by the University of Washington Press as “Iran and the Surrounding World 1501-2001: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics.” The conference was accompanied by a reception on the occasion of a festschrift edited by two ex-students, Rudi Matthee and Beth Baron, Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (Costa Mesa, Mazda, 2000). The main sponsors of the conference and reception were the UCLA von Grunebaum Center and Center for Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Studies, and there were many other sponsors including several centers, History Department endowed chairs, the UCLA History Department and other administrative units. It was followed by a unique cross-cultural concert directed by Ali Jihad Racy. For several years I engaged in photography, concentrating on people, throughout the world. My photos were the centerpiece of an exhibit and catalogue on the Qashqai people of Iran at UCLA’s Fowler Museum. My photos of Yemen were represented in the widely-traveled exhibit and book, Sojourners and Settlers, ed. Jonathan Friedlander. I have also exhibited and sold photos elsewhere. Several photos are given professional reproduction in my new Women in the Middle East, and others are on the covers and inside several of my books. A more complete biography appears in Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher, ed., Approaches to the History of the Middle East: Interviews with Leading Middle East Historians (Ithaca: Reading, UK, 1994), reprinted with a supplement in my Women in the Middle East: Past and Present (Princeton University Press, 2007). In response to a colleague’s query as to how many Ph.D.’s I had supervised, I put together a list of the nineteen completed, and one almost completed. I include the abbreviation RDPB for “revised dissertation published as a book.” Several have second or more books, and for them I put in “plus.” Almost all have good jobs, a few have retired, and I remain in close contact with many.
In addition I worked closely in several years’ seminars and on dissertation committees with John
Reudy, Juan
Cole, Islamic Studies, Univ. of Julia
Clancy-Smith, 1988, Shahla Haeri,
Anthropology, Azadeh Kian, CNRS, Paris Sociology (chair Michael Mann), RDPB Andrew
Newman, Islamic Studies, Univ. of Reza
Sheikholeslami , endowed chair, Golnar Mehran
(Comparative Education, I
chaired or co-chaired,
among those who took other jobs before finishing, Taka Shimamoto,
C. Phil (university teaching, BIBLIOGRAPHY: My
major singly-authored books, in reverse chronological order, are:
·
Women
in the Middle East: Past and Present, Princeton University Press,
2007.
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Modern ·
Qajar ·
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