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Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh

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Ph. D. in history of the modern Middle East and the Islamic World, June 13, 2010 Assistant Professor of the Islamic World & modern Middle East history

Vanguard Education Group of Chicago

Modern Middle Eastern History


Graduate Student
B.A., M.A. California State University Fullerton

Office: Off Campus
Hours:

Advisor: Nancy Gallagher

2010 PhD Graduate and now working at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago

Dissertation Title

  • An Ayatullah’s Pivotal Support of Iran’s First Modern Revolution: the Case of Muhammad Kazim Khurasani and the Constitutional Revolution 1906-11

Teaching Fields

  • Modern Middle East History
  • Modern Iranian History and the Persianate World
  • History of Transregional Islam: Shi'ism in Iran and Iraq
  • The Origins of Zionism

Courses Taught

  • modern Middle East
  • World History (Ancient to 1500)
  • World History (1500-Present)

Teaching Assistantships

  • World History (PreHistory-1000 CE)
  • World History (1000-1700)
  • World History (1700-Present)

Publications

  • Interregional Rivalry Cloaked in Iraqi Arab Nationalism and Iranian Secular Nationalism and Shi‘ite Ideology
    International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (Winter 2009)
  • Shi‘i Ideology, Iranian Secular Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88),
    London School of Economic's Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism journal (Summer 2007)

Awards

  • University of California Regent’s Dissertation Fellowship, UCSB, Fall 2009
  • Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, UCSB, 2008-2009
  • American Institute in Iranian Studies, Summer 2007
  • Eloise and Stephen Hay Islamic Studies Honors Award, UCSB, 2007
  • Foreign Language Area Studies, Arabic, UCSB and American University in Cairo

Works in Progress

  • Al-Ma’mun and the Sasanian Tradition
    This paper examines possible intellectual connections between al-Mamun’s implementation of new sociopolitical policies (813-833 CE) with those of pre-Islamic Sasanian Iran
  • Childhood Dreams, a Revolution, and the Wrath of War: Iranian Society According to a Child Soldier with American Ideals
    A historical look at Iran before, during, and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution based on my experience as a child soldier and junior paramedic for two years during the Iran-Iraq War before migrating to the United States.