Hamid Rezai, M.Phil., Ph.D. Columbia University BA, MA (Diplom) Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany. Hamid is a scholar of the contemporary history and politics of the Middle East with a particular focus on popular mobilization in the region, especially in Iran. Additional research interests include Comparative Politics of the Middle East, Identity Politics, and Political Violence. Currently he is revising his manuscript _Authoritarian States, Contentious Societies: Politics, People, and Protest in Contemporary Iran_, which examines the impact of demographic alteration, elite factionalism, and dissident discourse on the emergence of popular protests, their trajectories, and their likely outcomes. For the past several years, he has taught a variety of courses at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, the City University of New York, and American University in Cairo(AUC)including, Political Theory, State and Society in the Middle East, Modern Arab Politics, Iranian Revolution, History and Politics of the Modern Middle East, History and Civilization of Islam, Social Movements in the MENA, and Cinema and Society in the MENA. From 2008-2010 he was an Exchange Scholar in the Politics Department at Princeton University. Recent awards include a Columbia University Contemporary Civilization Preceptorship (2008-10), Columbia University Multi-Year Faculty Fellowship (2003-2010), Margaret Abdel-Ahad Pennar Fellowship (2006-2007), and the Andrew W. Mellon and John W. Kluge Endowment for a New Generation of Faculty Excellence Fellowship (2006). He has lived in the Middle East, U.S., and Europe, is fluent in Persian, German, Tabari, and English, and has advanced reading proficiency in Arabic, and intermediate reading proficiency in French and Latin. He teaches currently at the University of California, Riverside.

History

State Formation

Democratization

Iran

All Middle East

Europe

Iranian Studies

Comparative Politics, Soc Movements (Modern ME)

Political Violence & Identity Politics

English (fluent)

German (fluent)

Persian (native)

Arabic (advanced)

Latin (intermediate)