Mehrzad Boroujerdi (born in Aghajari, Iran) is an Iranian political scientist. He is currently the vice provost and dean of College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Missouri University of Science and Technology.
Life Boroujerdi was born in Aghajari, and spent his youth in the Khuzestan province, Iran. Shortly before the Iranian Revolution, he emigrated to the United States to pursue his studies. He received his B.A. in political science with a minor in sociology from Boston University in 1983 (magna cum laude), his M.A. from Northwestern University in 1985, and his PhD from the American University in Washington, D.C. in 1990. He subsequently held post-doctoral position at Harvard University and Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.
He was the former president of Association for Iranian Studies, the oldest Iranian studies research group in the western hemisphere, a former fellow of American Council on Education.
His 1996 book Iranian Intellectuals and the West has been widely reviewed by scholars such as Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Ali Mirsepassi, Abbas Milani, Farhang Rajaee, Gawdat Bahgat, Saïd Amir Arjomand, Ebrahim Biparva, William B. Quandt, Stephanie Cronin, Misagh Parsa, and Nikki Keddie among others.
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