Ebrahim Soltani
Office Hours
- Tuesdays and Thursdays 11 AM - 12:30 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 2025
- PLSC 213, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:30-10:45 AM, 420 Pray Harrold
- PLSC 479E, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:15 PM, 420 Pray Harrold
Selected Publications and Presentations
- "The Phenomenology of Breathing: An Analysis of Paul Auster's Autobiographies", Published in Andisheh Pouya, August 2024
- "From Place to Non-Place: The Color of Belonging in Migration", Published in Andisheh Pouya, March 2024
- "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.