Prof Ali Ansari

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 463027

Email

aa51@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 1.16

Location

St Katharine's Lodge

Office hours

By Appointment

Research areas

Development of the Iranian state; Ideology, myth and nation building; Social and Intellectual history; Iran and the West.

PhD supervision

• Hatem Alshaikh-Mubarak
• Heather Robinson
• Philip Grobien
• Brenden Benjamin
• Leonard Michael
• Parnian Sadeghi
• Zachary Einerson
• Ameneh Mehvar
• Mahnaz Moinian

Selected publications

• Iranian nationalism and the question of race

  Ansari, A. M., 24 Apr 2017, Constructing Nationalism in Iran: From the Qajars to the Islamic Republic. Litvak, M. (ed.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, p. 101-116 16 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern History).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• The curious case of the nuclear company of Britain and Iran

  Ansari, A. M., 7 Apr 2017, In : Iran: Journal of British Institute of Persian Studies. 55, 1, p. 73-86 14 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• M?rkhw?nd and Persian historiography

  Ansari, A. M., 28 Apr 2016, In : Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 26, 1-2, p. 249-259 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Taqizadeh and European civilisation

  Ansari, A. M., 2016, In : Iran: Journal of British Institute of Persian Studies. 54, 1, p. 47-58

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Iran: the Politics of History

  Ansari, A. M., 2015, (In preparation) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 500 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Iran: a very short introduction

  Ansari, A. M., 27 Nov 2014, Oxford: Oxford UP. 144 p. (Very short introductions; vol. 408)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• L'etat, c'est moi: the paradox of sultanism and the question of 'regime change' in modern Iran

  Ansari, A. M., 11 Mar 2013, In : International Affairs. 89, 2, p. 283-298

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Myth, History and Narrative Displacement in Iranian Historiography

  Ansari, A. M., 2013, Perceptions of Iran: History, Myths and Nationalism from Medieval Persia to the Islamic Republic. London: I. B. Tauris, p. 5-23 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• The Politics of Nationalism in Modern Iran

  Ansari, A. M., Aug 2012, Cambridge University Press. 327 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Crisis of Authority: Iran's 2009 Presidential Election

  Ansari, A. M., 2010, London: Royal Institute of International Affairs. 113 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

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