Cyrus Schayegh is Professor of International History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, and before was Associate Professor (2014-17) and Assistant Professor (2009-14) at the Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University. He has published in The American Historical Review, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and The International Journal of Middle East Studies, among other journals. His most recent books are The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World (Harvard University Press, 2017) and The Routledge History Handbook of the Middle East Mandates (Routledge, 2015), co-published with Andrew Arsan. An edited volume of his, Globalizing the US Presidency: Postcolonial Views of John F. Kennedy, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury.

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

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

“Iran’s Global Long 1970s: An Empire Project, Civilizational Developmentalism, and the Crisis of the Global North” in Age of Aryamehr: Late Pahlavi Iran and its Global Entanglements, ed. Roham Alvandi (London: Gingko Library, 2018), 262-291.

“Mohammad Reza Shah’s Autocracy: Governmental Constraints,” Iranian Studies 51:6 (2018): 889-904.

“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

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

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

“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.

“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.

“‘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.

global history, modern Middle East