Ali Banuazizi

Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College

Ali Banuazizi is Research Professor of Political Science at Boston College and Research Affiliate at the Center for International Studies at M.I.T. After receiving his Ph.D. from YaleUniversity in 1968, he taught at Yale and the University of Southern California beforejoining the faculty of Boston College in 1971. Since then, he has held visiting appointments at the University of Tehran, Princeton, Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Oxford, and M.I.T. He served as the founding editor of the journal of Iranian Studies, from 1968 to1982. He is a past president of the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS) and of the MiddleEast Studies Association in North America (MESA); associate editor of the Encyclopedia ofIslam and the Muslim World; and currently editor-in-chief of Freedom of Thought Journal.

Ali Banuazizi is the author of numerous articles on society, culture, and politics of Iranand the Middle East, and coauthor (with A. Ashraf) of Social Classes, the State andRevolution in Iran (2008) and coeditor (with M. Weiner) of three books on politics,religion, and society in Southwest and Central Asia.