Research Professor
Telephone: 617-552-4124
Email: ali.banuazizi@bc.edu
ORCID
Intellectuals and politics in the Middle East; religion and nationalism; politics of human rights; comparative study of religion, ethnicity, and social movements in the Middle East; U.S.-Iran relations.
By appointment
Ali Banuazizi's scholarly interests include political cultures of the Middle East; comparative study of religion, nationalism, and politics in the Middle East; and Iran鈥檚 social history and contemporary domestic politics and foreign relations. He served as the Director of the Program in Islamic Civilization and Societies and Chair of the International Studies Academic Advisory Board at Boston College from 2007 to 2021. He is a past President of the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) and the Association for Iranian Studies (AIS). He has held visiting appointments at Princeton,Harvard, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, M.I.T., and Oxford University.
鈥淣ationalism and Religion in Iran.鈥 In The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Nationalism.聽Edited by Jeffrey Haynes. New York: Routledge, 2026, pp. 310-324.
Socioeconomic Inequality, Social Classes, and Mobility in Pre-Revolutionary Iran. Amsterdam, the Netherlands: International Institute of Social History, 2024.
Ardeshir Mohassess: A Retrospective (with Ardeshir Babaknia). Irvine, CA: University of California in Irvine Press, 2022.
Myths about the Powerless: Contesting Social Inequalities (coedited with M. Brinton Lykes, Ramsay Liem, and Michael Morris). Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996.
The New Geopolitics of Central Asia and Its Borderlands (coedited with Myron Weiner). Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and London: I.B. Tauris Publishers), 1994.
The Politics of Social Transformation in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan (coedited with Myron Weiner). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1994.
The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics (coedited with Myron Weiner). Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1986.
鈥Islamic Revolution in Iran,鈥 Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, 2nd Ed., Vol. 1. Farmington Hills, MI: Macmillan/Gale, 2016, pp. 550-555.
Social Stratification in the Middle East and North Africa. London and New York: Mansell Publishing Co., 1984.
"Social Psychological Approaches to Political Development." In Understanding Political聽Development. Edited by Myron Weiner and Samuel P. Huntington. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1987. Pp. 281-316.聽