Position:
Research Associate
Faculty / College Address:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Email:
stephanie.cronin@ames.ox.ac.uk
Educational Background:
LSE (BScEcon), SOAS (MA, PhD)
Research Interests:
Modern Iranian History, History from Below of the Middle East
Current Projects:
An exploration of British - Iranian Imaginaries
Courses Taught:
- History from below in the Middle East and North Africa
Biography:
I received my PhD in 1992 from SOAS. I then taught at SOAS as Lecturer in the Contemporary History of the Near and Middle East, and as Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. Between 2009 and 2021 I was Lecturer in Iranian History in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. I was also Roshan Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford (2015-2021); Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow in Iranian History (2001-2008); Fellow of the British Institute of Persian Studies(1983-7)
I am currently on the Editorial Boards of three journals, Middle Eastern Studies; Iranian Studies, and the Journal of Persianate Studies and the assistant editor of the Journal of Holy Land Studies. In 2020 I launched the book series entitled Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World. I remain sole general editor. The Series has published seven books so far. Thirteen more are under contract or in production.
Recent Publications:
- Histories of Iran: Modernism and Marginality in the Middle East (Cambridge University Press, 2021)
- (Ed) Crime, Poverty and Survival in the Middle East and North Africa: The 'Dangerous Classes' since 1800 (I. B. Tauris, 2019)
- Armies and State-building in the Modern Middle East: Politics, Nationalism and Military Reform (I. B. Tauris, 2014)
- Shahs, Soldiers and Subalterns: Opposition, Protest and Rebellion in Modern Iran, 1921-1941 (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
- Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941 (Routledge, 2006)
- The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran, 1910-1926, (I. B. Tauris, 1997)
- (Ed) Anti-Veiling Campaigns in the Muslim World Gender, Modernism and the Politics of Dress (Routledge, 2014)
- (Ed) Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions since 1800 (Routledge, 2013)
- (Ed) Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa (Routledge, 2007)
- (Ed) Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left (Routledge, 2004)
- (Ed) The Making of Modern Iran; State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941 (Routledge, 2003)
