Dr. Gholam Reza Vatandoust is currently a Professor of Near Eastern Studies and History at the Department of International Relations of the American University of Kuwait. He previously served at Shiraz University (former Pahlavi University) in Iran where he was forced into an early retirement under President Ahmadinejad. During his tenure at Shiraz University he was recognized for his outstanding scholarly contributions and was named a Research Fellow in the Humanities. He was the Giovanni Costigan Visiting Professor of History at the University of Washington, USA and the the recipient of the Getty Institute Fellowship. His book The CIA Documents on the 1953 Coup and the Overthrow of Dr. Musaddiq of Iran (Rasa Publishers, 2001) was named winner of the Best Book of the year in the Province of Fars. Another of his works, Selected Texts: A Reference Guide to the History of Iran is now in its ninth edition and serves as a university textbook in Iran. Yet another co-authored work (with Sheipari and Tavakoli, also in Persian), Persian Women and Newspapers of the Constitutional Period: A Portrayal (1906-1911) was published early in 2007, and again in 2009 and received the Sediqeh Dowlatabadi best book of the year award in women’s studies. The Meshkinfam Museum of Art (with Hassan Meshkinfam) was published in 2010. His recent chapter, "The Hisoriography of the Persian Gulf," appeared in Lawrence Potter's The Persian Gulf in Modern Times: People, Ports, and History (2014). Dr. Vatandoust has published numerous articles in Persian and English and his areas of interest are the Modern Middle East, Iran and the Persian Gulf.

History

Iranian Studies

Middle East/Near East Studies

Gulf Studies

Globalization

Gender/Women's Studies

Kuwait

Iran

Gulf

Historiograpy Of The Persian Gulf Based On The Per

Comparison Of Aspirations And Achievements Iranian

Privatization Of Higher Education: The Case Of Ira

English (advanced)

Persian (native)

French (intermediate)

Arabic (intermediate)