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Houchang E. Chehabi, Visiting Professor of International Relations and
History for the fall semester of the academic year 2007-2008, studied
geography at the University of Caen and international relations at the
Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris before going to Yale University, where
he took his PhD in political science in 1986. He then taught at Harvard
University and UCLA, and in 1998 became Professor of International Relations
and History at Boston University. He is the author of Iranian Politics
and Religions Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and
Khomeini (I. B. Tauris, 1990); principal author of Distant Relations:
Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (Oxford: Centre for Lebanese
Studies, 2006); and co-author, with Juan J. Linz, of Sultanistic Regimes
(The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). His articles have appeared in
Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte, Daedalus, Diplomacy and
Statecraft, Government and Opposition, International Journal
of the History of Sport, International Journal of Middle East Studies,
Iranian Studies, Political Science Quarterly, and several
edited volumes. His main research interest is the cultural history of Iran
since the nineteenth century. Chehabi's course, "Transnational Shi'ism," will
examine Twelver Shi'ism as a transnational religious phenomenon.
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