Dr Homa Katouzian is the Iran Heritage Foundation Research Fellow, St Antony’s College, and Member, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. He is editor of Iranian Studies, Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies and co-editor of the ISIS-Routledge book series in Iranian studies.
He taught and published in economics for eighteen years, but his recent and current research interests are in Iranian history and politics, the comparative sociology of Iranian and European history, and modern and classical Persian literature. He has worked, as tenured staff or visitor, at Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; University of California, Los Angeles; University of Leeds; University of California, Sane Diego; University of Kent at Canterbury; Pahlavi University and McMaster University.
- Sa’di in Love: The Lyrical Verses of Persia’s Master Poet, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2016.
- Iran: Politics, History and Literature (hb &pb), London and New York: Routledge, 2013.
- Iran: A Beginners’ Guide, London: Oneworld, 2013.
- Sadeq Hedayat, His Work and His Wondrous World, ed., London and New York: Routledge, paperback edition, 2011.
- The Persians: Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern Iran, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, paperback edition, 2010.
- Iran in the 21st Century, (co-ed with Hossein Shahidi), London and New York: Routledge, 2008.
- Iranian History and Politics, the Dialectic of State and Society, London and New York: Routledge, paperback edition, 2007.
- Sa’di, the Poet of Life, Love and Compassion, Oxford: Oneworld Publishers, 2006.
- State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Rise of the Pahlavis, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, paperback edition, 2006.
- Sadeq Hedayat: The Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer, paperback edition, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2002.
- Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran, London and New York: I. B. Tauris, second, paperback, edition, 1999.
- Musaddiq's Memoirs, London: Jebhe, 1988 (the English translation of the memoirs translated (with S. H. Amin) and edited and annotated, together with an 81-page introduction by Homa Katouzian).
- The Political Economy of Modern Iran, London and New York: Macmillan and New York University Press, 1981.
- Ideology and Method in Economics, London and New York: Macmillan and New York University Press, 1980.