Scholarship and Biography
Naghmeh Sohrabi is the Charles (Corky) Goodman Professor of Middle East History and the Director for Research at the Crown Center for Middle East Studies. She is the author of the book Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe (Oxford University Press, 2012) and numerous articles on Iranian history, politics, and culture. She is the 2014-15 recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, and in 2017-18, along with Prof. Greg Childs she received a Mellon-Sawyer Seminar Fellowship in Comparative Revolutions. In 2015 she was awarded the Bernstein Faculty Fellowship and in 2019 the Michael L. Walzer award for teaching excellence. She is currently writing a book on the experiences of the 1979 revolution in Iran for which she has also received an ACLS fellowship in 2020-2021, the Berlin prize from the American Academy in Berlin in Spring 2021, and the Bellagio Center residency from the Rockefeller Foundation. Professor Sohrabi was a member of the International Advisory Board, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Science, member of Advisory Board, Women’s World in Qajar Iran: A Digital Archive, and the president of the Association for Iranian Studies from 2020-2022.