Ervand Abrahamian
Ervand Abrahamian | |
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Abrahamian on BBC Persian in January 2020 | |
| Born | Ervand Vahan Abrahamian 1940 (age 85–86) |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Spouse(s) |
Helen Harbison
(m. 1967; died 1981)Mary Nolan (m. 1986) |
| 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 advisor | 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 a Distinguished Professor of History at Baruch College and at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His work deals with political repression in the Islamic Republic of Iran as well as Iranian politics.