Iran Left Forum 2011 Bios

Iran: Current State of Affairs

Reza Ghorashi has a Ph.D. in economics from Fordham University and teaches at Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. His areas of research and interest are international trade, globalization, and the Middle East, particularly Iran. He has published articles in both English and Farsi on the listed subject matters.

Thomas W. O'Donnell is a nuclear physicist and expert on the political economy of international affairs, especially global petroleum. Dr. O'Donnell recently spent two years in Caracas – as a Fulbright Scholar and profesor visitando at Centro de Estudios del Desarrollo. He is now teaching at The New School in New York City, Graduate International Affairs. He is presently writing a book: The One Global Barrel. His work focuses on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, Latin America and China.

Hamideh Sedghi is Harvard’s WAPPP. A political scientist and gender specialist, her teaching venues include Harvard and the New School. She is the first Iranian woman to publish on women in Iran from a social science perspective in the US. She has many publications including Women And Politics In Iran: Veiling, Unveiling And Reveiling, Cambridge University Press. She is currently working on Feminist Protests and Iran’s One Million Signature Campaign. She is the recipient of many awards including the 2005 Christian Bay Award for Best Paper at APSA.

Hamid Zangeneh, Ph.D., is Professor of Economics at Widener University, Chester, Pennsylvania. His areas of specialization are Macroeconomics, Money and Banking, and International Economics. His publications have appeared in, among others, Applied Economics, Public Budgeting and Financial Management, Middle East Policy Journal. He co-edited (with Cyrus Bina), Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1992 and edited Islam, Iran, and World Stability, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1994. His latest publication, “The Iranian Economy and the Globalization Process,” appeared in Ali Mohammadi, ed., Iran Encountering Globalization: Problems and Prospects, RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.