Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
ABOUT
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi is Assistant Professor in Comparative Political Theory at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Goldsmiths, University of London. He was previously British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and Postdoctoral Associate at St Cross College, Oxford, where he also received his doctorate. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and the University of Exeter. Sadeghi-Boroujerdi was Associate Editor at the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies from 2014 to 2017 and is Series Editor of Radical Histories of the Middle East (Oneworld). His writings on Iran and Islamic thought have been widely published in academic journals and the international media, including the British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies, Digest of Middle East Studies, Middle East Journal, Foreign Policy, Jadaliyya, Al Jazeera, Lobelog, Muftah, Jacobin, and The Guardian. Sadeghi-Boroujerdi's first monograph entitled 'Revolution and its Discontents: Political Thought and Reform in Iran' was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
Discipline
Political Science
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Comparative
Historiography
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Islamic Thought
Persian
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Gulf
Iran
Iraq
Specialties
Islamic Political Thought
Political Theory
Critical Theory And Marxism
Languages
Persian (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
Education
DPhil
| 2014
| Middle East Politics
| University of Oxford
Abstracts
Strategic Depth, Counterinsurgency & the Logic of Sectarianization: Perspectives on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Security Doctrine and Its Regional Implications
The Popular Front in the Middle East: Revolution and Anti-Colonialism in Iran’s Tri-continental Moment
Abu Dharr Revisited: Ayatollah Taleqani, Socialist Communitarianism and Council Democracy
