Afshin Marashi

Afshin Marashi is an American academic. He is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the current holder of the Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History. He received his PhD from the University of California in 2003, and has worked at the University of Kansas and California State University in the past. In addition to English, he has a reading/speaking command of Persian, and a reading command of Turkish, French and Spanish.

Selected works

 * Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (University of Washington Press, 2008)
 * Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas Press, co-editor, 2014)
 * Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South (University of Texas Press, co-editor of the book series, 2020-)