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Manzar Foroohar

Manzar ForooharProfessor
Modern Latin America, Modern Middle East, Political Economy
E-mail: mforooha@calpoly.edu
Office: Building 47, Room 25B
Phone: (805)756-2068

 

EDUCATION

  • Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

  • M.A. California State University, Northridge

  • B.A. National University of Iran, Tehran

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

  • Teaching fields: Modern Latin America, Modern Middle East, Comparative Political Economy of Latin America and the Middle East.

  • Research fields: Religion and Revolution in Latin America and the Middle East, Social and Political Movements in Latin America and the Middle East, Palestinian Diaspora

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Publications:

  • 1999: “Internal Migration and Urbanization in Nicaragua
    020.fiu.edu/Workshops/Salvador_Workshop

  • 1993: “The Division in the Nicaraguan Catholic Church 1968-1979,”
    in Garcia Antezana, Liberation Theology and Sociopolitical Transformation, Vancouver, Canada: The Institute of the Humanities, Simon Fraser University.

  • 1989: The Catholic Church and Social Change in Nicaragua (State University of New York Press, 1989).

  • 1986: “Liberation Theology: the Response of Latin American Catholics to Socioeconomic Problems,” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No, 3.

Presentations:

  • August 2005: “Conflicto Palestina/Israel,” Centro de Amigos para la Paz, San Jose Costa Rica

  • July 1999: “Migracion interna y urbanizacion en Nicaragua,” the international conference “Centroamerca 2020, Migracion y Transnacionalism,” sponsored by the International University of Florida in San Salvador.

  • November, 1994: The Middle East Studies Association, Twenty-Eight Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona. "A Comparison of Revolutionary Coalitions
    in Iran and Nicaragua.

  • January, 1994: American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Francisco
    "Latin America in World History."

  • September, 1992: The XVII International Congress, Latin American Studies Association. "Class Formation and Rural-Urban Migration in Nicaragua, 1950s and 1960s."

  • February, 1991: An International Conference on Language, Culture, and Society in the Americas, Merida, Venezuela."Agricultural Modernization: Nicaragua."

  • October, 1989: 35th Annual Conference of the Pacific Coast Council on Latin American Studies, Sacramento. "Capitalism and Class Structure in
    Nicaragua."

  • September 1989: Annual Meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida."Socio-economic Formation and Development of Revolutionary Movements."

  • July, 1988: 46th International Congress of Americanists, Amsterdam, Holland.
    "Religion and Revolution in Nicaragua and Iran, a Comparative Study."

Work in Progress:

  • “Palestinian Diaspora in Central America”

SERVICE

  • Membership in the Academic Senate

  • Chair, Cal Poly Academic Senate Faculty Affairs Committee (2002-present)

  • CFA Chapter President (2001-2005)

  • Member: State wide Academic Senate (2002-present)

  • Member: State wide Faculty Affairs Committee (2003-present)

COURSES

  • HIST 214 – Political Economy of Latin America and the Middle East

  • HIST 314 – History of Modern Middle East

  • HIST 340 – History of Modern Latin America

  • HIST 341 – History of Modern Central America