Dr. David N. Yaghoubian
Assistant Professor

E-mail: dny@csusb.edu
Phone: (909) 537- 3790
Fax: (909) 537-7645

Education

B.A., 1989, University of California, Santa Cruz
M.A., 1994, University of California, Berkeley
Ph.D., 2000, University of California, Berkeley

Areas of Specialization

Middle Eastern History
Islamic History
Iranian History
Minorities in the Middle East
Nationalism
Imperialism and Colonialism

Courses Offered

World Civilizations I
Classical Islamic Civilization
Modern Middle East
Modern Iran
Iran and the United States
Nationalism in the Middle East
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
The U.S. Media and the Middle East
Politics of Oil

Publications

Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East, Second edition, edited by Edmund Burke, III and David Yaghoubian (University of California Press, 2006).

“Armenian-Iranian Promoted to Amir Tuman of the Persian Cossack Brigade: Farman of Muhammad Ali Shah Qajar, 1908.” Modern Middle East Sourcebook, edited by Camron Amin (Oxford University Press, 2006).

“Shifting Gears in the Desert: Trucks, Guilds and National Development in Iran 1921- 1941,” Jusur: The UCLA Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 13 (1997): 1-36.

 “Hagob Hagobian: An Armenian Truck Driver in Iran,” in Struggle and Survival in the  Modern Middle East, edited by Edmund Burke, III (University of California Press, 1993)

Book reviews for Iranian Studies, Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, and Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient.

Current Research
Interests and Projects

Ethnicity, Identity, and the Development of Nationalism in Iran (Book-length manuscript based on Ph.D. dissertation. Currently seeking a publisher)

Nationalism and Religion in the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988)