Houchang E. Chehabi
Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History
Houchang E. Chehabi has also taught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews, UCLA, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published three monographs,Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990),Culture Wars and Dual Society in Iran (2018), and Onomastic Reform: Family Names and State Building in Iran (2020). He has also edited or co-edited a dozen volumes, most notably Sultanistic Regimes (1998), Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006), Iran’s Constitutional Revolution: Popular Politics, Cultural Transformations, and Transnational Connections (2010), and Unconquered States: Non-European Powers in the Imperial Age (2024).
Chehabi has written numerous articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and translations.
Professor Chehabi’s areas of expertise include Iranian history, island studies, and international law.
