Mateo M. Farzaneh smiles into the camera
Mateo
Mohammad
Farzaneh
Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of the History Department, Chair of the Political Science Department, Principal of The Mossadegh Initiative
History
College of Arts and Sciences
(773) 442-5821
m-farzaneh@neiu.edu
Expertise
History of Iran, the modern Middle East, and the Islamic civilization, political Islam
Courses Taught
Hist 111F: World History: Islam
Hist 275: Wring and Methods for History Majors, topic: World War I and the Middle East
Hist 382: The World in the 20th Century: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues
Hist 392: Problems in History: History of the Modern Middle East
Hist 392: Problems in History: Religion, Culture, and Controversy in the Islamic World
Hist 392: Problems in History: History of Iran
Hist 401: Historiography and Historical Methods
Hist 466: Readings in the 19th Century Islamic Middle East (Graduate Colloquium)
Research Interests
Iranian women and gender in war, Islamic Clerics and Modern Politics; Constitutionalism and Reform; Religious Nationalism
Education

University of California Santa Barbara

History, Ph.D., 2010

Selected Publications

Books:

, Latifeh Yarshater Book Award Honorable Mention by Association for Iranian Studies and Persian Heritage Foundation

, Best First Book Award 2016 by the National History Honor Society, Phi Alpha Theta.

Articles:

鈥淎khund Khurasani: A Historical Model for Iranian Constitutionalism,鈥 Digest of Middle East Studies (forthcoming)

鈥淕um shudih-yi dar safihati tarikh,鈥 Sharq, (2012); a Persian language journal published in Iran

鈥淚nterregional Rivalry Cloaked in Iraqi Arab Nationalism and Iranian Secular Nationalism and Shi鈥榠te Ideology,鈥 International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies (2009)

鈥淪hi鈥榠 Ideology, Iranian Secular Nationalism, and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88),鈥 Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (2007)

鈥淚ran-Iraq War (1980-1988) and the Migration of Iranian Youth to California,鈥 Encyclopedia of Immigration and Migration in the American West (2005)

Professional Affiliations & Membership
Background

An Iranian native, Mateo Mohammad Farzaneh attended high school and college in southern California. After spending seven years in nursing and health care industries, his curiosity led him to pursue a higher education in history. He is quadrilingual, speaking Persian, English, Spanish and Arabic. Recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships, he taught world and Middle Eastern history at Santa Barbara City College and California State Fullerton before joining NEIU鈥檚 History faculty in 2010. 

Principal of The Mossadegh Initiative
m-farzaneh@neiu.edu

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Curriculum Vitae
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