Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Department of History
Indiana State University
621 Chestnut St
Terre Haute
IN
47809
United States
ABOUT
James M. Gustafson (Ph.D., Univ. of Washington, 2010) is Associate Professor of History at Indiana State University. He has published articles on the social and economic history of 18th and 19th century Iran and Central Asia in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Journal of the Social and Economic History of the Orient, and Encyclopaedia Iranica. His first book, Kirman and the Qajar Empire: Local Dimensions of Modernity in Iran, 1794-1914, was published by Routledge Press in 2015. Dr. Gustafson also serves as a member of the Association for Iranian Studies council and was a two-term President of the Midwest Association for Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
19th-21st Centuries
Central Asian Studies
Iranian Studies
Persian
Geographic Areas of Interest
Central Asia
Iran
Specialties
Social And Economic History Of Qajar Iran
Languages
Persian (advanced)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2010
| History
| University of Washington
MA
| 2005
| Middle Eastern Studies
| University of Chicago
Abstracts
On States and Estates: Writing the Provinces into the Social and Economic History of Qajar Iran
The Local Roots of Iranian Nationalism: Identity and Space in Persian Local Histories, 1870-1910
Vaqf and Ecology: Reading the Endowment of the Madrasa-yi Sultani from an Environmental History Perspective
Climate Crisis at the End of Safavid History: An Ecological Perspective
Engineering a Modern Society: A British Commercial Mission to Southeastern Iran and a Covert Persian Counter-Narrative, 1904-5
