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