Naghmeh Sohrabi
Degrees
Harvard University, Ph.D.Harvard University, M.A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, B.S.
Expertise
Modern Middle East History, Modern Iranian History, Historiography, Comparative Revolutions, Iranian Revolution, DecolonizationProfile
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Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. She is the author of the book Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles on Iranian history, politics, and culture. She is the 2014-15 recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and in 2017-18, along with Prof. Greg Childs she received a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Fellowship in Comparative Revolutions. In 2015 she was awarded the Bernstein Faculty Fellowship and in 2019 the Michael L. Walzer award for teaching excellence. She is currently writing her second book on the experience of the 1979 revolution in Iran for which she has also received an ACLS fellowship in 2020-2021 and the Berlin prize from the American Academy in Berlin in Spring 2021. Professor Sohrabi is a member of the International Advisory Board, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Science, member of Advisory Board, Women’s World in Qajar Iran: A Digital Archive, and the president of the Association for Iranian Studies from 2020-2022.
Courses Taught
| HIST | 111a | History of the Modern Middle East |
| HIST | 111b | The Iranian Revolution in Global Context |
| HIST | 178a | The Middle East and the West: Historical Encounters |
| HIST | 205b | Introduction to Doctoral Studies |
Awards and Honors
Berlin Prize, American Academy in Berlin (2021)
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (2020 - 2021)
Theodore and Jane Norman Fund for Faculty Research and Creative Projects (2018)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Sawyer Seminar on Comparative Revolutions in the Middle East, Latin America, and the Caribbean (2016 - 2018)
Bernstein Faculty Fellowship (2015)
Teaching Innovation Grant, Provost’s Office, (2015)
Mellon New Directions Fellowship (2014)
Scholarship
Sohrabi, Naghmeh and Arash Davari. ""A Sky Drowning in Stars": Global ’68, the Death of Takhti, and the Birth of the Iranian Revolution,”." Global ’79: Itineraries of the Iranian Revolution. 1st ed. vol. N/A Ed. Eds. Ali Mirsepassi and Arang Keshavarzian. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020 (forthcoming)
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. Bazresi safarnameh-ha-ye dawran-e Qajar beh Urupa. Trans. Mohammad Sarvi. Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz, 2021.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh and Arielle Gordon. ""The Iranian Revolution and its Aftermaths,"." Understanding and Teaching the Modern Middle East. 1st ed. vol. N/A Ed. Omnia el-Shakry. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2020. N/A.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity (Cambridge University Press, 2018),." Rev. of Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity, by Afshin Matin-Asgari. International Journal of Middle East Studies 2020
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Someone's Daughter." The Berlin Journal 67-72.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Where the Small Things Are: Thoughts on Writing Revolutions and Their Histories"." Jadaliyya N/A. N/A (2020): <https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41154>.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "“Can Revolutions be Written? Theoretical and Empirical Implications”." Middle East Studies Association Annual Conference, Virtual. October 2020.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "“Does the 1979 revolution in Iran still matter?”." Farouk Mustafa Memorial Friday Lecture Series. University of Chicago
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. Introduction to reprint of Days of Blood, Days of Fire. 2020. Spector Books, Leipzig. (Introduction to 1979 photo collection of the Iranian revolution by Bahman Jalali and Rana Javadi and others for a lithograph reproduction of the now banned book).
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "The Iranian Revolution as a Global Event." Middle East Studies Association of North America annual conference. San Antonio, Texas
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "The Obvious in the Archive: Ethnography, History, and the Iranian Revolution." The Iranian Revolution and its Disciplinary Aftereffects, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2019.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "The Revolution and its Archives." The Iranian Revolution at 40. University of Pennsylvania
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "“Remembering the Palestine Group: Friendship, Global Activism, and the Iranian Revolution,” (under 2nd stage of review)." International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 51. 2 (2019): N/A.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Making Sense of the Iranian Revolution." The Iranian Revolution as World Event. Amsterdam
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "The “problem space” of the historiography of the 1979 Iranian Revolution." History Compass 16. 11 (2018).
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "“Revolution and Arab Existentialism in the Era of Decolonization: An Interview with Yoav Di- Capua,”." Age of Revolutions: A HistorioBLOG (2018): <https://ageofrevolutions.com/2018/07/09/revolution-and-arab-existentialism-in-the-era-ofdecolonization- an-interview-with-yoav-di-capua/>.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh and Arang Keshavarzian. "“Lesson Learned (and Ignored): Iran’s 2017 Election in Context,”." Middle East Report and Information Project May 26, 2017 (2017): <http://www.merip.org/mero/mero052617-0>.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh and Seyedamirhossein Mahdavi. "“What Does the 2017 Presidential Election Tell Us About the State of the Islamic Republic?”." Middle East Brief N/A. N/A (2017): <http://www.brandeis.edu/crown/publications/meb/meb109.html>.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh and Seyedamirhossein Mahdavi. "“What’s Really at Stake in Iran’s Presidential Election,”." The Washington Post 2017: Monkey Cage N/A.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "15 Months Later: Iran and the Nuclear Deal." Dalhousie University
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Books as Revolutionary Objects inIran." Age of Revolutions: A HistorioBLOG (2016): <https://ageofrevolutions.com/2016/04/04/books-as-revolutionary-objects-in-iran/>.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Muddling through the Iranian Revolution." Perspectives on History: The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "A Historical Ethnography of the Iranian Revolution." Friday Seminars at St. Antony's. Oxford University
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Book Review." Rev. of City of Knowledge: Shiraz, History, Poetry, by Setrag Manoukian. International Journal of Middle East Studies 2014
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Experiencing Revolution: The Case of Iran." London School of Economics. 2/19/14.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Travel to the West." Safar Voyage: Contemporary Works by Arab, Iranian, and Turkish Artists. Ed. Jill Baird and Fereshteh Daftari. Doughlas and McIntyre, 2013
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages." by Houari Touati. Journeys vol. 13 Summer 2012: 99-107(9).
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "READING THE TEA LEAVES: IRANIAN DOMESTIC POLITICS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2013." Middle East Brief 65 (2012)
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. "Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe." Rev. of Naghmeh Sohrabi: Taken for Wonder, by Stephen Conermann. Sehepunkte 2012.
Sohrabi, Naghmeh. Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe. Oxford University Press, 2012.