Biography
Abbas Milani is the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Director of Iranian Studies at Stanford University and a professor (by courtesy) in the Stanford Global Studies Division. He is also one of the founding co-directors of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise includes U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. He taught at Tehran University’s Faculty of Law and Political Science until 1986, where he was also a member of the Board of Directors of the university’s Center for International Relations. After moving to the United States, he was the chair of the Political Science Department at the Notre Dame de Namur University for 14 years. He was a visiting research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley’s Middle East Center for eight years. He has published more than twenty books and two hundred articles and book reviews in scholarly magazines, journals, and newspapers. His most recent books include A Window into Modern Iran: The Ardeshir Zahedi Papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Hawai’i and his B.A. in political science and economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
