Making of Iranian Modernity

Roham Alvandi is the author of Nixon, Kissinger, and the Shah and Associate Professor of International History and Director of the Iranian History Initiative at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previously, he worked on the strategic planning staff in the office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Persian Studies, the Royal Historical Society, and the Royal Asiatic Society. Afshin Marashi is Professor and Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History at the University of Oklahoma, where he also served as the founding director of the Center for Iranian Studies. He is the author of Exile and the Nation and Nationalizing Iran and is the co-editor of Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity. David Motadel is Associate Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science and recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize for History. His books include Islam and Nazi Germany’s War, which was awarded the Ernst Fraenkel Prize, and Islam and the European Empires, as editor.