Houchang E. Chehabi
Houchang E. Chehabi
Department of International Relations
154 Bay State Road
Room 401
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
(617) 358-0193
(617) 358-0190 fax
chehabi@bu.edu
Professor of International Relations and History. (Licence, Universite de Caen; Diplôme, Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris; MA, PhD, Yale University)
Specialization: Middle Eastern Politics and Cultural History, Shiism, International Law.
Houchang Chehabi has taught at Harvard and UCLA, and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). He has also co-edited Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies (1995), Sultanistic Regimes (1998), and Iran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations, and Transnational Connections (2010).
Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations.
Professor Chehabi teaches the following courses:
Fundamentals of International Politics (IR 230)
Turko Persia in the Twentieth Century (IR 328/HI 398)
History of Pre-Modern Iran (IR 329/HI 385)
History of Modern Iran (IR 397/HI 381)