NIKKI KEDDIE

PROFESSOR EMERITUS

Office: 5385 Bunche Hall
Phone: (310)825-4601
Fax: 310-206-9630
E-mail: keddie@history.ucla.edu

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Curriculum Vitae

Class Websites

Field

Near East

Selected Publications

I. Books and Special Issue of Journals
Iran and the Muslim World: Resistance and Revolution. London: MacMillan, 1995.

Ed. Debating Gender, Debating Sexuality. New York: N.Y.U. Press, 1995, authored introduction.

Qajar Iran and the Rise of Reza Khan: 1796-1925. Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1999.

Co-ed with Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi. “Women in Twentieth Century Religious Politics.” Special issue of Journal of Women’s History. Vol. 10, No. 4. (Winter 1999). Authored first article.

Co-ed with Rudi Matthee. Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, June 2002.

Modern Iran: Roots and Results of Revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.

Women in the Middle East: Past and Present. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.

II. Articles and Chapters (excluding short encyclopedia articles and journal book reviews)
"Secularism and the State: Towards Clarity and Global Comparison." New Left Review. Vol. 226 (November/December 1997): 21-40.

"The New Religious Politics: Where, When, and Why Do 'Fundamentalisms' Appear?" Comparative Studies in Society and History. Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct. 1998): 696-723.

"Iran: Understanding the Enigma,” Middle East Review of International Affairs 2:3 (Sept. 1998), http://www.ciaonet.org/olj/meria/meria98_keddie.html.

“The New Religious Politics and Women Worldwide: A Comparative Study.” Journal of Women’s History. Vol. 10, No. 4 (Winter, 1999): 11-34.

“Women and Religious Politics in the Contemporary World.” ISIM Newsletter. 3/99 (July 1999).

“Women in Iran since 1979.” Social Research. Vol. 67, No. 2 (Summer, 2000); special issue: “Iran: Since the Revolution.” 405-438.

“The Study of Muslim Women in the Middle East: Achievements and Problems.” Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review. Vol. 6 (2000-2001): 26-52.

Co-ed with Azita Karimkhany. “Women in Iran: An Online Discussion.” Middle East Policy. Vol. 8, No. 4 (December, 2001): 128-143.

“Shi’ism and Change: Secularism and Myth,” in Shi’ite Heritage: Essays on Classical and Modern Traditions, ed. L. Clarke (Binghamton, NY: Global Publications, 2001).

“Women in the Limelight: Some Recent Books on Middle Eastern Women’s History since 1800.” International Journal of Middle East Studies. Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 (August, 2002).

"Secularism and its Discontents." Daedalus. (Summer 2003).

"L'Iran evolverà, ma da solo." Aspenia:. No. 22. America Black and White. Aspen Institute: Italia, Rome. (October 2003):185-192.
English version, "Iran: change will come from within." Aspenia International. No. 21/22. Economy & Security. Aspen Institute: Italia, Rome. (December 2003): 150-157.

"A Woman's Place: Democratization in the Middle East." Current History. Vol. 103, No. 669 (January 2004).

“Trajectories of Secularism in the West and the Middle East.” Global Dialogue. Vol. 6, No.1-2 (Winter-Spring 2004).

“Women in the Middle East since the Rise of Islam.” Women’s History in Global Perspective, Vol. 3, ed. Bonnie G. Smith. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2005, 68-110.

“Revolutionary Iran: National Culture and Transnational Impact,” in Robert W. Hefner, ed., The New Cambridge History of Islam, Vol. 6, Muslims and Modernity: Society and Culture since 1800.

Opinion Pieces and Newspaper Reviews
“Divine Inspiration.” New York Times. (December 16, 2001): Op-ed.

“Why Reward Iran’s Zealots?” Los Angeles Times. (Feb.17, 2002): Sunday Opinion, Section M.

“Don’t judge a woman by her cover: life is
not all bad in Iran,” The Times (London) (February 9. 2004), http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1072-994763,00.html.

“War without End Brings Endless Dangers.” History News Service syndication to several newspapers and online services. Published online by History News Network, (Feb. 2002), as “Endless Enemies,” and by the Gulf/2000 Project: http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/.

“Taking History on Faith,” Review of Reza Aslan, No God but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam,” Washington Post, April 7, 2005, C2.

“On History in the Twentieth Century,” Daedalus, Summer 2006 (Letter to the Editor).

Awards

1994 elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2001 mentoring award of Middle East Studies Association, which also made me an
honorary fellow in 2003.

2001 award for scholarly distinction from the American Historical Association

2002 Persian History award from the Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation

In 2004 I won the generous prize of the International Balzan Foundation, half
of which is devoted to others’ research and has enabled me to bring two post-doctoral
fellows in women’s studies to UCLA for each of three years. The fellows for 2005-06
are Holly Shissler, who will also teach two courses in History, and Nayereh Tohidi,
who will teach two courses in Women’s Studies. 2006-07 fellows are Masserat Amir-Ebrahimi
and Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi. 2007-08 fellow is Houri Berberian.

I have had these major fellowships, in addition to several summer and
UCLA grants: AAUW (1954-55): Guggenheim (1963-64), SSRC (1959-60, 1966),
Rockefeller (1980, 1982; Bellagio, 1992); I was visiting scholar for
four months at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C., in 1982,
and was associate professor, Harvard summer school, 1967 and visiting
professor, University of Rochester (1970), and University of Paris,
III (1976-78). I have spent a total of three years in Iran and have
done extensive research travel in Europe, the Middle East, East and
Southeast Asia, and Africa.

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