Khosrow Shakeri Zand

Biography

Activities and publications

• The Russo-Caucasian Origins of the Iranian Left. Social Democracy Modern Iran, Curzon Press, London, 2000; Univ. of Washington Press and Univ. of British Columbia Press, Seattle and Vancouver, 2001, 400 pp.
• Armenians of Iran: The Paradoxical Role of a Minority in a Dominant Culture, Harvard University Center for Middle East Studies Monograph Series, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Jan. 1998, 410 pp.
• The Soviet Socialist Republic of Iran, 1920-1921: Birth of the Trauma, Pittsburgh University Press, Pittsburgh, 1995, 650 pp.
• Beginning Politics: The Reproductive Cycle of Children’s Tales and Games in Iran, Lewiston 1992, new edition, 1996, 263 pp.
• Un Prince iranien rouge en France. Oeuvres et vie de Iradj Eskandari, vol. I, Mazdak/Antidote, Florence/Tehran, 2002

  Career

• Mazdak Publications, Florence, Italy, general editor, 1969–78;
• Tehran University, Iran, assistant professor of economics, 1979–80;
• Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France, lecturer and associate professor of history, 1982–85, lecturer and research fellow, 1998-;
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies, Washington, DC, resident scholar, 1986, research scholar, 1987-88;
• University of California, Los Angeles, visiting scholar at Center for Near Eastern Studies, 1986, visiting associate professor of history, 1987;
• Harvard University, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge, MA, visiting scholar and research fellow, 1988–91, senior research fellow, 1992–94, 1996-;
• University of Chicago, IL, visiting scholar at Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1991;
• DePaul University, Chicago, visiting associate professor of history, 1991–92;
• Columbia University, Center for Iranian Studies, NYC, assistant editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica, 1994–96;
• University of Paris III, Sorbonne Nouvelle, lecturer in modern Iranian history,1977-80.

  Political views