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Ali Kadivar

Associate Professor

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Ali Kadivar

Ph.D.

Contact

McGuinn Hall 406

Telephone: 617-552-4134

Email: kadivarm@bc.edu

Education

  • B.A., Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
  • M.A., Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
  • M.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Research Interests

Politics, Comparative Historical Analysis, Social Movements, Global Sociology, Middle East, Iran

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Biography

Mohammad Ali Kadivar is an Associate Professor of Sociology and International Studies; he is also currently a Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies at Harvard University. His work contributes to political and comparative-historical sociology by exploring the causes, dynamics, and consequences of protest movements as well as the interaction between protest movements and democratization. This work grows out of his experience as a participant-observer of the pro-democracy movement in Iran, but his research agenda moves outward from this case to explore these issues on a global scale, using case studies, comparative-historical methods, and statistical analyses.

Kadivar's first book, Popular Politics and the Path to Durable Democracy, has been published in November 2022 with Princeton University Press. His research has also been published in the American Sociological Review, Social Forces,  Comparative Political Studies, European Sociological Review, Comparative Politics, Socius, Mobilization, Empirical Economics, and Sociology of Development. His work has won awards from the Collective Behavior and Social Movement (CBSM), Comparative Historical Sociology, Global and Transnational Sociology, Sociology of Development, and Peace, War and Social Conflict sections of the American Sociological Association (ASA). He has also published analyses of Iranian politics for public audiences in English and Farsi in outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog, and BBC Persian.

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