New Professor Ranin Kazemi

The history department is pleased to announce that Ranin Kazemi will be joining us in the fall semester as our new historian of Middle Eastern history. Professor Kazemi earned a Ph.D. in History at Yale University in December 2012. He is interested in social and environmental history with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa, as well as the Caucasus, and Central and South Asia. In August 2012, he joined the Department of History at Kansas State University and obtained faculty affiliation with the Women’s Studies Department and the interdisciplinary Security Studies Program. At Kansas State, he taught courses in a wide variety of topics concerning the history of the Middle East and North Africa. He also offered classes on world history, historical methodology, and the international and social history of the Cold War. Arriving at San Diego State, he will be teaching HIST101 “World History” and HIST450 “The Writing of History” in the fall semester of 2016.

Professor Kazemi has published extensively in leading journals in his field and is currently working on a book manuscript entitled The Ecology of Conflict: Privation, Protest, and Populism in Iran, 1850–1892. This project traces the economic, environmental, social, and political origins of one of the earliest national revolutionary movements in the modern Middle East. To complete this work, he has conducted research in Iranian, Turkish, British, French, Dutch, and American archives. His research has been supported by, among others, the International Institute of Social History and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, the American Research Institute in Turkey, the American Institute of Iranian Studies, and the Yale University Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies. We are thrilled to add such a talented teacher-scholar to our ranks.

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