Teaching and Scholarship Hub

A Workshop with John Ghazvinian, Scholars to Storytellers

Are you looking to expand your reach? This seminar covers the basics of commercial publishing – how it differs from academic publishing, what to expect, the pros and cons of trade publishing, and some of the resources available for scholars wanting to make this transition.

Going Public Day features a series of sessions designed to help faculty imagine new audiences for their scholarship. Throughout the day, speakers will share ways of bringing academic ideas into broader conversations.

About the Speaker:

John Ghazvinian is an author, historian and former journalist, specializing in the history of US-Iran relations. His latest book, America and Iran: A History, 1720 to the Present (Knopf, 2021), is a comprehensive survey of the bilateral relationship, based on years of archival research in both Iran and the United States. He is also author of Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil (Harcourt, 2007), as well as coeditor of American and Muslim Worlds before 1900 (Bloomsbury, 2020). He has written for such publications as Newsweek, the New York Times, The Nation, the Washington Post, the Sunday Times and the Huffington Post, and has taught modern Middle East history at a number of colleges and universities in the Philadelphia area. He earned his doctorate in history at Oxford University, and was the recipient of a “Public Scholar” fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2016-2017, as well as a fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation’s special initiative on Islam in 2009-2010.

Ghazvinian previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Associate Director (2018-2020) and Executive Director (2020-2025) of the Middle East Center.

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