简介

Fakhreddin Azimi was born in Iran; he achieved the highest grade in the country-wide university entrance exam in the field of humanities and graduated (first class) from the School of Law and Political Sciences, Tehran University, where he edited a student journal to which faculty and well-known intellectuals contributed. Moving to England, he received his M.Sc. from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and his D.Phil in 1985 from St. Antony’s College, Oxford University, where he had the opportunity to work with A.H. Hourani, among others. He joined the University of Connecticut in 1991. His primary focus of research is the politics, society and culture of modern Iran. He is a Fellow of the Yale University Iran Colloquium. In addition to teaching courses on both the medieval and modern Middle East, Azimi is interested in historiography, the epistemology of history and the exploration of the conceptual and theoretical contribution of the social sciences to the task of historical investigation. He teaches a graduate seminar on history and theory.