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Negin Nabavi, associate professor, has been teaching at Montclair State since 2007. She received her B.A., M.Phil. and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. In the US, she has also taught at Princeton University, New York University and University of Maryland. A historian of Modern Iran and the Modern Middle East, her research interests include the intellectual and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth century Iran, the history of the press, and women’s and gender history. She teaches courses that cover both the Middle East more broadly as well as her area of expertise, and include: Introduction to the Modern Middle East, Women in the Middle East: Past and Present; Cinema, Politics, and Society in the Modern Middle East, as well as Modern Iran. Her most recent publication is Modern Iran: A History in Documents (Markus Wiener Publishers, 2016). She is also the author of Intellectuals and the State in Iran: Politics, Discourse and the Dilemma of Authenticity (University Press of Florida, 2003), and has edited two volumes of collected essays: Intellectual Trends in Twentieth Century Iran: A Critical Survey (University Press of Florida, 2003), and Iran: From Theocracy to the Green Movement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). Her current book manuscript “Modernity and Its Discontents: Newspapers, Newspaper Culture, and the Public Square, 1870-1925” examines the formative years of the press and the shaping of a newspaper culture in Iran. Since 2020, she has been the Section Editor for the History of Iran since 1500 for the Encyclopedia of Islam Three.

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