Afshin Marashi
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Afshin Marashi is an American historian, with a focus on modern Iran.[1] He is a professor of history at the University of Oklahoma. He is the current holder of the Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History.[2] He received his bachelor's degree in political science in 1992 from University of California, Berkeley,[1] and his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2003.[3] He has worked at the University of Kansas and California State University, Sacramento in the past.[3] In addition to English, he has a reading/speaking command of Persian, and a reading command of Turkish, French and Spanish.[4]