Professional Affiliation

City University of New York

Expert Bio

Ervand Abrahamian was Distinguished Professor of History at the City University of New York. He is now Professor Emeritus of History at Baruch College and the Graduate Center in the City University of New York. He is the author of: Iran Between Two Revolutions (Princeton University Press, 1982); The Iranian Mojahedin (Yale University Press, 1989); Khomeinism (University of California Press, 1993); Tortured Confessions: Prisons and Public Recantations in Iran (University of California Press, 2004); A History of Modern Iran (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and The Coup: 1953, The CIA and the Roots of Modern US-Iranian Relations (The New Press, 2013). His books have been translated and published in Persian, Turkish, Arabic, Italian, and Polish. He has just completed Oil Crisis in Iran: From Negotiations to Coup (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming Summer 2021). He is now working on a book on the 1979 revolution. In 2011, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.