James D. Clark is a historian and scholar of the Middle East and Central Asia. His area of specialization is modern Iran. Several of his articles and books have been published. His annotated translation of The Travel Diary of Ebrahim Beg by Zayn ol-Abedin Maraghe’i and his history of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan entitled Provincial Concerns: A History of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, 1848-1906 appeared in 2006. His annotated translation of The Rapture (Khalseh) by the 19th century Iranian historian Mirza Hasan Khan E‘temad os-Saltaneh has been accepted for publication by the University of Texas Press. He is now working on a history of the Kurdish revolt in Iranian Azerbaijan in 1880, and a history of the province of Azerbaijan during the Iranian Constitutional Revolution (1905-12). He has taught at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Nebraska Omaha, Peru State College, Khojand State University, and Tehran University. The subjects of his courses include American history, world history, Islam, the Middle East, global studies, and Iran. During the 1990s he traveled to Khojand, Tajikistan several times on behalf of the University of Nebraska. In 1994, he resided in Skopje, Macedonia as the representative of the Management Department of UNL. Since 2000 he has been the Overseas Director for the American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS). From 2001 to 2006 he was also the director of the Tehran Project whereby he resided in Iran and supervised American doctoral students, promoted cooperation with Iranian institutions and academics, and worked with the University of Tehran, the International Center for Persian Studies (ICPS), and the Dehkhoda Institute. From 2007 to 2012 he was the Program and Site Director of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) summer intensive language program for Persian and Tajiki-Persian in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He currently teaches courses on world history, the modern Middle East history, the US and the Middle East, modern Iran, modern Russia, and Israel and Palestine at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, in Omaha, Nebraska.

History

Iranian Studies

19th-21st Centuries

Central Asian Studies

Middle East/Near East Studies

World History

Persian

Central Asia

Azerbaijan

Iran

Former Soviet Union

Tajikistan

Reform And Revolution In Iran And The Middle East.

Social Thought In Iran, The Middle East, And Centr

The Cold War In Iran And The Middle East.

Arabic (intermediate)

Azeri (elementary)

German (advanced)

Persian (fluent)

Russian (elementary)