MESA Banner
myMESA
David Rahimi
Occupation
Independent Scholar/Researcher
Contact
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Iranian Studies
Islamic Studies
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Modernization
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Europe
Iran
Specialties
Modern Iranian Social And Cultural History
Prostitution In Pahlavi Iran
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2022 | History | University of Texas at Austin
MA | 2016 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BA | 2014 | History | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstracts
“To Make a Man’s Life Happy”: Prostitution and Consumerism in 1960s and 1970s Iran “Spoiling the Imperial Order”: Christian Missionaries in the Late Ottoman Empire Fashioning Intimate Consumers: Iran and the US Point IV Program in the 1950s The Iranian Cosmopolitan Kitchen: Class, Gender, and Modernization in Zan-e Ruz "Home of Ruby Wine and Rosy Lips": Tourism in Post-WWII Pahlavi Iran