Chehabi Awarded AIS Senior Mentorship Award
Houchang Chehabi, Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, was awarded the first Senior Mentorship Award at the Association for Iranian Studies’ (AIS) Thirteenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference.
AIS was founded in 1967 as an academic society to support and promote the field of Iranian Studies at the international level. As an independent, non-partisan, non-political, multi-disciplinary international community of over 500 scholars, students, academic and non-academic researchers, and aficionados of Iranian studies, AIS is committed to promoting the free exchange of ideas, freedom of expression in all forms and all media, and unrestricted pursuit of (academic and non-academic) research, instruction, publication, and presentation (in Iran and internationally) without fear of intimidation and persecution. Chehabi served as AIS president from 2010-2012.
Chehabi’s acceptance speech can be viewed below.
And there goes Houchang Chehabi’s speech! @AIS_1967 pic.twitter.com/UlDx1R44Zg
— Daryoush (@dariushm) August 30, 2022
Houchang Chehabi has taught at Harvard and has been a visiting professor at the University of St. Andrews, UCLA, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa. He has published two books, Iranian Politics and Religious Modernism: The Liberation Movement of Iran under the Shah and Khomeini (1990) and Distant Relations: Iran and Lebanon in the Last 500 Years (2006). Chehabi has written numerous articles, book reviews, and translations. Read more about Professor Chehabi on his faculty profile.