Professional Affiliation

Associate Professor, Florida International University

Expert Bio

Eric Lob is an associate professor in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Florida International University. His research focuses on the intersection of politics and development in Iran and the Middle East. He is the author of the book Iran’s Reconstruction Jihad: Rural Development and Regime Consolidation after 1979 (Cambridge University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Iranian Studies, Middle East Critique, The Middle East Journal, Third World Quarterly, and others. He is a Non-Resident Scholar with the Middle East Institute’s Iran Program and a Board of Trustees member of the American Institute of Iranian Studies.