Houchang Chehabi
American historian
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Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi (born 1950) is a scholar of Iranian studies at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University where he is Professor of International Relations and History.[1][2]
1950 (age 75–76)
Houchang Chehabi | |
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| Born | Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi 1950 (age 75–76) |
| Citizenship | American |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Modernist Shi'ism and Politics: The Liberation Movement of Iran (1986) |
| Juan José Linz | |
Other advisor | Ervand Abrahamian |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Iranian studies |
| Institutions | |
Chehabi is Iranian-German and was born in Tehran, Iran. He is a former Harvard faculty member, as well as UCLA. He received his MA and DPhil from Yale University.
His publications focus on Iran and its history and politics. His books include Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006).[1] In 2015 he was a Fellow at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Berlin.[3]
