Afshin Marashi is an American academic. He is Professor of History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the current holder of the Farzaneh Family Chair in Modern Iranian History.^[1] He received his PhD from the University of California in 2003,^[2] and has worked at the University of Kansas and California State University in the past.^[2] In addition to English, he has a reading/speaking command of Persian, and a reading command of Turkish, French and Spanish.^[3]

Selected works

• Nationalizing Iran: Culture, Power, and the State, 1870-1940 (University of Washington Press, 2008)
• Rethinking Iranian Nationalism and Modernity (University of Texas Press, co-editor, 2014)
• Connected Histories of the Middle East and the Global South (University of Texas Press, co-editor of the book series, 2020-)