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Ali Kadivar

Associate Professor

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Ali Kadivar

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 406

Telephone: 617-552-4134

Email: kadivarm@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
  • M.A., Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
  • M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests

Politics, Comparative Historical Analysis, Social Movements, Global Sociology, Middle East, Iran

Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies; he is also currently a听Fellow听at听Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. His work contributes to political and comparative-historical sociology by exploring the causes, dynamics, and consequences of protest movements as well as the interaction between protest movements and democratization. This work grows out of his experience as a participant-observer of the pro-democracy movement in Iran, but his research agenda moves outward from this case to explore these issues on a global scale, using case studies, comparative-historical methods, and statistical analyses.

Kadivar's first book, , has been published in November 2022 with Princeton University Press. His research has also been published in the听,听,听听,听,听,听,听, , and听. His work has won awards from the听,听,听,听, and听听sections of the听. He has also published analyses of Iranian politics for public audiences in English and Farsi in outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Washington Post鈥檚 Monkey Cage blog, and B91滴滴 Persian.

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