Ervand Abrahamian
Ervand Abrahamian | |
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Abrahamian on BBC Persian in January 2020 | |
| Born | Ervand Vahan Abrahamian 1940 (age 84–85) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Spouse | Mary Nolan |
| Children | 2 |
| Academic background | |
| Education | St John's College, Oxford (BA, MA) Columbia University (MA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Social Bases of Iranian Politics: The Tudeh Party, 1941–53 (1969) |
| Academic advisors | Keith Thomas |
| Influences | Christopher Hill, E. P. Thompson |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Iranian studies, political history, social history |
| School or tradition | Marxist historiography, Neo-Marxism |
| Institutions | Baruch College Graduate Center, CUNY Princeton University New York University Oxford University |
| Doctoral students | Touraj Atabaki |
| Main interests | Qajar dynasty, 1953 coup d'état, 1979 Revolution, Islamic Republic |
| Notable works | A History of Modern Iran (2008) Khomeinism (1993) Iran Between Two Revolutions (1982) |
Ervand Abrahamian (Persian: یرواند آبراهامیان; Armenian: Երուանդ Աբրահամեան; born 1940) is an Iranian-American historian of the Middle East. He is Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.