Honoring Dr. Mehrdad Mashayekhi: Social, cultural and political researcher on Iran
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Mehrdad Mashayekhi was born in Tehran, Iran and has resided in the U.S. since 1972. He received a. B.A. and M.A. in economics (Case Western Reserve University, 1976, Cleveland, and The American University, 1979, Washington D.C.), and a Ph.D. in Sociology from The American University, in 1986.
Mashayekhi is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. He joined the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in 1989 and has alternately taught as adjunct and visiting positions.
His courses include: Introduction to Sociology, Political Sociology, Globalization and Social Change in Developing Countries, Social Inequality, Social Movements, Politics and Culture in Postrevolutionary Iran, and Sociology of Democratization and Authoritarianism.
Dr. Mashayekhi’s research focus is postrevolutionary Iran, on specific subjects such as; student movement, Islamic reformism, civil society and democratization, political culture, and current political affairs. He is coeditor of Political Culture in the Islamic Republic (Routledge, 1992). His new book (in Persian) titled Towards Democracy a Secular Republic in Iran: Essays in Political Sociology was published in May 2007. His latest article titled “Culture of Mistrust: A Sociological Analysis of Iranian Political Culture” appeared in the Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Islamic Thought (2006).
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