Misagh Parsa

Email: Misagh.Parsa@Dartmouth.edu

Professor of Sociology

Dartmouth College
6104 Silsby - Room 106
Hanover, NH 03755
603-646-3166

Queens College, B.A., 1975
University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1982

Courses Taught at Dartmouth

• Socy 7 FS: 20th Century Revolutions (syllabus)
• Socy 22  The Sociology of International Development (syllabus) (formerly Socy 66)
• Socy 23  Social Movements (syllabus) (formerly Socy 67)
• Socy 25  Democracy and Democratization in Developing Countries (syllabus)
• Socy 49.1  Social Origins and Outcomes of Islamic Fundamentalism (syllabus)
• Socy 49.3  Capitalism, Prosperity and Crisis (syllabus)

Recent Publications

• Devlet, Ideoloji ve Devrim: Iran, Nikaragua ve Filipinler Devrimlerinin Karsilastirmali Analizi. Istanbul: Iletisim Yayinlari, 2004.
• States, Ideologies, and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Analysis of Iran, Nicaragua, and the Philippines. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. (Reviews available as an Adobe.pdf download)
• Social Origins of the Iranian Revolution. Rutgers University Press, 1989. (Reviews available as an Adobe.pdf download)
• "Entrepreneurs and Democratization: Iran and the Philippines." Comp. Studies in Society & History, Vol 37(4), October 1995.
• "Ideology and Revolution in Iran." Middle East Report, Vol 25(5), 1995.
• "Conversion or Coalition? Ideology in the Iranian and Nicaraguan Revolutions." Political Power & Social Theory 9, 1995.
• "Komiteh," in Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, Oxford Univ. Press, 1995.

Faculty Research and Teaching Interests

• Political sociology
• Social change and social movements
• Comparative and historical sociology
• International development
• Democracy and democratization