Dr. Ali Gheissari Adjunct Professor D.Phil, University of Oxford Research and teaching specialty:  Intellectual and Political History of Modern Iran and the Middle East

Office:  Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice
Hours: On leave 2008-2009 (Visiting Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford)
Email:   alig@sandiego.edu

Selected publications:

• Contemporary Iran: Economy, Society, Politics (ed., Oxford University Press, forthcoming, 2009).
• Tabriz and Rasht in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (Tehran, 2008).
• Democracy in Iran: History and the Quest for Liberty (Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Iranian Intellectuals in the Twentieth Century (University of Texas Press, 1998 & 2008).
• Persian Translation of Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics (Tehran, 1991).
•  “The Poetry and Politics of Farrokhi Yazdi” (Iranian Studies, 1993).
• “Truth and Method in Modern Iranian Historiography and Social Sciences” (Critique, 1995).
• “Modernity and Nationalism in the Literature of early Pahlavi Iran” (Iran Nameh, 2000).
• “Despots of the World Unite! Satire in the Iranian Constitutional Press” (Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2005).
• “Merchants without Borders: Trade, Travel, and a Revolution in late Qajar Iran” (in War and Peace in Qajar Persia, 2008).
• “Constitutional Rights Reconsidered: Development of Civil Law and the Shaping of Iran’s Judiciary, 1907–1941” (Goftogu, 2008).