Dr. Boroujerdi received his B.A. in Political Science and Sociology (Magna Cum Laude) from Boston University, and his Ph.D. in International Relations from the American University in Washington, D.C. His doctoral dissertation won the Foundation for Iranian Studies award in 1990 for best dissertation in the field of Iranian studies, and in 1998 he was awarded the Maxwell School’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for outstanding teaching, research, and service. From 1990 to 1992, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies and a Rockefeller Foundation fellow at the University of Texas at Austin.

In addition to more than thirty journal articles and book chapters in English and Persian, he is the author of Tarashidam, Parastidam, Shikastam: Guftarhay-i dar Siyasat va Huvyiyat-i Irani [I Carved, Worshiped and Shattered: Essays on Iranian Politics and Identity] (Tehran: Nashr-e Negah-e Mo`aser, 1389/2010) and Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (Syracuse University Press, 1996) — translated into Arabic, Persian, and Turkish — and is the editor of a forthcoming volume entitled Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and Theory of Statecraft. For the last several years, Dr. Boroujerdi has been working on a large research project collecting data on more than 2,000 members of the political elite of post-revolutionary Iran. Dr. Boroujerdi has been the recipient of grants from the Henry R. Luce Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute of International Education, the U.S. Department of Education, and the United States Institute of Peace. Since 1996, he has served as the editor of over 25 books that Syracuse University Press has published under the imprint of Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East. From 2000 to 2007 he served as the book review editor of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. He is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute (Washington, D.C.), a member of the Social Science Research Council’s Religion and International Affairs Advisory Committee, an institutional trustee of the American Institute of Iranian Studies, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Near East Foundation. Dr. Boroujerdi (with Mirjam Künkler) is a principal investigator of the Iran Data Portal (http://www.princeton.edu/irandataportal/), an internet portal that hosts social science data on Iran.

As a Middle East expert, Boroujerdi has consulted with a number of organizations both domestic and international. He is interviewed quite frequently by national and international news media (such as Associated Press, BBC, National Public Radio, New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post) as one of the leading Iran experts around the world.

Professor Boroujerdi is also the President-elect of the International Society for Iranian Studies.