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Cyrus Schayegh

PhD

Sample Publications

 

 

Monographs

  1. The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming [Fall 2017]).

 

  1. Who Is Knowledgeable, Is Strong: Science, Class, and the Formation of Modern Iranian Society, 1900-1950 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

 

Edited volumes

  1. The Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates (London: Routledge, 2015), co-edited with Andrew Arsan.

 

  1. A Global Middle East: Mobility, Materiality and Culture in the Modern Age, 1880-1940 (London: Tauris, 2014), co-edited with Liat Kozma and Avner Wishnitzer.

 

Articles in peer-reviewed journals

Commissioned and in preparation

  1. “Studying interwar transnationality from the perspective of the Middle East,” part of a special issue of Relations Internationales.

 

  1. “The Expanding Overlap of Imperial, International and Transnational Political Activities, 1920s-1930s: a Belgian Case Study,” part of a special issue of International Politics.

 

Published

  1. “The Inter-war Germination of Development and Modernization Theory and Practice: Politics, Institution Building, and Knowledge Production between the Rockefeller Foundation and the American University of Beirut,” Geschichte und Gesellschaft 41 (2015): 649–684.

 

  1. “Three questions for historians of science in the modern Middle East and North Africa,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 47:3 (2015): 588-591, a contribution to an International Journal of Middle East Studies Roundtable on the History of Science.

 

  1. “Ha-yishuv ke-helek mi-Suria ha-gdola be-tkufat ha-milhama,” [The Yishuv as Part of Greater Syria in the War] Zmanim 126 (2014): 8-15 [in Hebrew].

 

  1. “Small Is Beautiful,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 46 (2014): 373-375, a contribution to an International Journal of Middle East Studies Roundtable on Social History.

 

  1. “1958 Reconsidered. State Formation and Cold War in the Early Post-Colonial Arab Middle East,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 41 (2013): 421-43.

 

  1. “Iran’s Karaj Dam Affair: Emerging Mass Consumerism, the Politics of Promise and the Cold War in the Early Post-war Third World,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 54:3 (2012): 612-43.

 

  1. “‘Who’s Who in Syria?’ A Note on a Historical Source from the Mid-Twentieth Century,” Critique 20:2 (2011): 219-24.

 

  1. “The Many Worlds of Abud Yasin, or: What Narcotics Trafficking in the Interwar Middle East Can Tell Us about Territorialization,” American Historical Review 116:2 (2011): 273-306.

 

  1. “‘Seeing Like a State’. An Essay on the Historiography of Modern Iran,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 37-61.

 

  1. “A Reply to Nikki Keddie,” International Journal of Middle East Studies 42 (2010): 544-45.

 

  1. “‘Recent Trends in the Historiography of Iran under the Pahlavi Dynasty (1921-1979)”, History Compass 6:6 (2008): 1400-1406.

 

  1. “The Social Relevance of Knowledge: Science and the Formation of Modern Iran, 1910-1940s” Middle Eastern Studies 43:6 (2007): 941-60.

 

  1. “The Development of Social Insurance in Iran: Technical-Financial Conditions and Political Rationales, 1941-1960”, Iranian Studies 39:4 (2006): 540-68.

 

  1. “Criminal-Women and Mother-Women. Socio-Cultural Transformations and the Critique of Criminality in Early Post-World War Two Iran”, Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 2:3 (2006): 1-21.

 

  1. “Serial Murder in Tehran: Crime, Science, and the Formation of Modern State and Society in Interwar Iran”, Journal for Comparative Studies in Society and History 47:4 (2005): 836-62.

 

  1. “‘Aql-i Salīm dar Jism-i Sālim Ast: Texts and Contexts in the Iranian Modernists’ Scientific Discourse of Health, 1910s-1940s”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 37:2 (2005): 167-88.

 

  1. “Hygiene, Eugenics, Genetics, and the Perception of Demographic Crisis in Iran, 1910s-1940s”, Critique: Journal for Critical Studies of the Middle East 13:3 (2004): 335-61.

 

  1. “Orientalism Enters the Cold War: The New York Times’ Coverage of Iran under Mosaddeq”, JUSUR: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 20 (Fall 2004).

 

  1. “Sport, Health, and the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1920s and 1930s”, Iranian Studies 35:4 (2002): 1-30.

 

  1. “Modern Science and the Formation of the Iranian Modern Middle Class, 1910s-1930s” ISIM 9 (2002).

 

Chapters in edited volumes and encyclopedia entries

Commissioned and in preparation

  1. “Postwar Societies (Middle East),” in 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War.

 

  1. “The Empire Strikes Back: Iran in the Global 1970s,” in Global Iran, ed. Roham Alvandi (press tba).

 

  1. “Concluding remarks,” in Mandates and Minorities, ed. Heleen Murre-van den Berg (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming (fall 2017).

 

  1. “Middle Eastern Reflections on the Interplay between Intra-imperial, Trans-Imperial, and Transnational Dimensions of Developmentalism, 1880s-1960s,” in Global Development, ed. Erez Manela (forthcoming, 2017)

 

Published

  1. “The Man in the Middle: Developmentalism and Cold War at AUB’s Economic Research Institute in-between the U.S. and the Middle East, 1952-1967,” in 150 years AUB. Commemorative Volume, ed. Nadia El Cheikh and Bilal Orfali (Beirut: AUB Press, 2016), 105-119.

 

  1. “Concluding Remarks: Writing AUB History in a Global Age,” co-authored with Aleksandra Kobiljski, in 150 years AUB, 329-336.

 

  1. “The Mandates and/as Decolonization,” in Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, ed. Cyrus Schayegh and Andrew Arsan (London: Routledge, 2015), 412-419.

 

  1. “Introduction,” co-authored with Andrew Arsan, in Routledge Handbook of the History of the Middle East Mandates, 1-24.

 

  1. “Introduction to Part 2” and “Introduction to Part 3”, in The Routledge History of the Middle East Mandates.

 

  1. “Introduction,” co-authored with Liat Kozma and Avner Wishnitzer, in A Global Middle East (London: Tauris, 2014), 1-15.

 

  1. “On Scales and Spaces: Reading Gottlieb Schumacher’s The Jaulân (1888),” in A Global Middle East, 19-54.

 

  1. “A History of Eugenics in Iran,” in Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine, eds., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 449-61.

 

  1. “The Population as a National Resource: an Iranian Press Article, 1937”, in Camron Amin et.al. (eds.): The Modern Middle East:  A Sourcebook for History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 623-26.

 

  1. “Crime and Society in Iran: Press and Court Transcripts, 1934”, in Camron Amin et.al. (eds.): The Modern Middle East: A Sourcebook for History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 62-64.

 

Submissions to Academic E-Websites

 

Book reviews

  1. Orkideh Behrouzan, Prozak Diaries. Psychiatry and Generational Memory in Iran (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016), in IJMES

 

  1. Julia A. Clancy-Smith, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2011), Mediterranean Historical Review 28:1 (2013): 72-75.

 

  1. Hillel Cohen, Good Arabs. The Israeli Security Agencies and the Israeli Arabs, 1948-1967 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 44:2 (2012): 368-70.

 

  1. Marjam Ardalan, Der Iran im Spiegel deutschsprachiger Reiseberichte im 19. Jahrhundert (Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2003), Iranian Studies 44:1 (2011), 432-33.

 

  1. Roman Siebertz, Die Briefmarken Irans als Mittel der politischen Propaganda (Wien: Verlag der oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2005), Iranian Studies 43:3 (2010): 582-84.

 

  1. Daniela Meier, Helvetias guter Draht zum Pfauenthron. Die Beziehungen der Schweiz zu Iran (1946-1978) (Zürich: Orell Füssli Verlag, 2002), Iranian Studies 43:3 (2010): 426-28.

 

  1. Stephen C. Poulson, Social Movements in Twentieth Century Iran. Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005), International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 39:3 (2007): 501-502.

 

  1. Stefan Sigerist, Schweizer im Orient (Schaffhausen: Selbstverlag, 2004), Iranian Studies 40:1 (2007): 113-16.

 

  1. Mohammad Hadi Mohammadi and Zohreh Ghaemi (2003): Tārikh-e adabiyāt-e kudakān (Tehran: Nashr-e Chistā), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 513-15.

 

  1. Mahdi Samāi (2003): Farhang-loghāt-e zabān-e makhfi (Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 536-38.

 

  1. Reza Bigdeloo (2001): Bāstāngarā’i dar tārikh-e mo‘āser-e Irān (Tehran: Nashr-e Markaz), Iranian Studies 38:3 (2005): 538-39.

 

  1. Markus Ineichen (2002): Die schwedischen Offiziere in Persien (1911-1916). Friedensengel, Weltgendarmen, oder Handelsagenten einer Kleinmacht im ausgehenden Zeitalter des Imperialismus? (Bern: Peter Lang), Iranian Studies 38:2 (2005): 338-40.

 

  1. Marjane Satrapi (2001): Persepolis. 1er et 2ième volumes (Paris: L’Association), Iranian Studies 37:1 (2004) : 179-80.

 

  1. Ebrahim Towfigh (2000): Modernisierung und postkoloniale Herrschaft in Iran. Versuch über den Staat [Modernization and post-colonial rule in Iran. Essay on the state] (Frankfurt a.M.: Verlag für interkulturelle Kommunikation), Iranian Studies 36:2 (2003): 296-300.

 

  1. José María Sierra Nava (2001): Episodios Persas (Burgos: Editorial Dossoles), Iranian Studies 36:1 (2003): 152-53.

Newspaper articles

  1. Review of Ulrich Ladurner und Gero von Randow, Die iranische Bombe. Hintergründe einer globalen Gefahr (Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2006), Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 11, 2006.

 

  1. “Frauen bleiben draussen: Nicht nur im Kino: Iranische Frauen im “Offside,” Basler Zeitung, May 13, 2006.
  2. “Familienplannung auf Islamisch. Gratwanderung zwischen Pragmatik und Moral in Iran,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung,October 20, 2004.
  3. “Racing Ahead. Argot and Urban Culture in Modern-Day Tehran,” Daily Star (Beirut), October 16, 2004.
  4. “Afghanen wählen auch in Iran und Pakistan. Intensivierte Politik der Repatriierung von Flüchtlingen,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, October 8, 2004.
  5. “Furniture Design: A Sign of Change in Iran? Popularity of non-licensed IKEA stores is booming,” Daily Star (Beirut), September 1, 2004.
  6. “Spritzentausch in Tehran,” WochenZeitung (Zürich)Nr. 51 (2004).
  7. “Modelling Marriage: Family Magazines in Iran”, Bad Jens. Iranian Feminist Newsletter, http://www.badjens.com, seventh edition, September 2004.
  8. “Eidechsen, Skorpione und der kleine Prinz. Verbot des Kassenschlagers “Marmulak” in Irans Kinos,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung,May 19, 2004.

Other

  1. Constitutionalism and Autocracy in Modern Iran [D.E.S. (MA), 1997] ISSN 1422-3007, © Université de Genève, Département de science politique, Faculté des sciences économiques et sociales, Mai 2001.

 

Current Position

Associate Professor, Princeton University