Ebrahim Soltani

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Associate Professor

Political Science

601K Pray Harrold

734.487.1453

[email protected]

Office Hours

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-2 PM
  • By appointment

Education

  • Ph.D., Syracuse University
  • MA, Syracuse University
  • MD, Iran University of Medical Sciences

Interests and Expertise

  • Theories of Justice
  • Democracy and Democratization
  • Religion and Politics
  • Middle East Politics

Courses

  • Political Thought
  • Global Justice
  • Middle East Politics
  • Religion and Politics
  • Democracy and Power
  • Model United Nations
Winter 2024
  • PLSC 213, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:15 PM, 419 Pray Harrold
  • PLSC 379W, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 3:30-4:45 PM, 419 Pray Harrold

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • "Racial Difference in the Relationship Between Health and Happiness in the United States" with Shervin Assari and Arash Javanbakht, published in Psychology Research and Behavior Management, June 2020.
  • "Conventional Secularism and the Humanization of Islam: Theory and Practice of Religious Politics in Iran," published in the Journal of the Middle East and Africa, Volume 9, Issue 2, April-June 2018.
  • "Metaphysics, Secularism, and Cosmopolitan Democracy" with Alireza Shomali, included in Lucian Stone (ed.), Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging, 2014.
  • “The Green Movement in Iran”, with Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, Post Standard, Sep. 20, 2009.
  • "The New Generation of Muslim Intellectuals in Iran: A Copernican Revolution," published in Intellectual Change and the New Generation of Iranian Intellectuals, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC, 2000.