Rudi Matthee
Rudi Matthee | |
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Matthee in 2018 | |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Los Angeles (PhD) |
| Thesis | Politics and Trade in Late Safavid Iran: Commercial Crisis and Government Reaction Under Shah Solayman (1666-1694) (1991) |
| Doctoral advisor | Nikki Keddie |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | History |
| Institutions | University of Delaware |
Rudolph P. Matthee, best known as Rudi Matthee (born 1953), is John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History in the History Department at the University of Delaware, teaching Middle Eastern history and specializing in the history of early modern Iran. He received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Matthee is a member of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, for which he also functioned as president twice in 2003–2005 and 2009–2011. He is the author of numerous books and articles on Safavid and Qajar Iran.