Biographie
Robert Steele ist Postdoktorand am Institut für Iranistik und arbeitet an der Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte des modernen Irans, mit Schwerpunkt auf der Zeit der Pahlavi-Dynastie. Er hat einen Doktortitel in arabischen und islamischen Studien von der University of Exeter und einen MPhil in Nahoststudien von der University of Manchester. Von 2021 bis 2022 war er Gastwissenschaftler am Department of International History der London School of Economics, und von 2019 bis 2021 war er der erste Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Iranian History am Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures der University of California, Los Angeles.
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Forschungsschwerpunkte
- Cultural and intellectual history of modern Iran
- Historiography of Pahlavi Iran
- Iran’s global interactions in the twentieth century
Laufende Projekte
Laufende Projekte
Ausgewählte Publikationen
Ausgewählte Publikationen
- Robert Steele, Pahlavi Iran’s Relations with Africa: Cultural and Political Connections in the Cold War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, [forthcoming, 2024].
- Firoozeh Kashani Sabet and Robert Steele (eds.), Iran and Global Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire. London: Gingko Library, 2023.
- Robert Steele, The Shah’s Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi Iran. London: I.B. Tauris, 2020.
- Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Robert Steele, ‘Introduction: Iran and Global Decolonisation’, in Iran and Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire, ed. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Robert Steele, 1-28. London: Gingko Library, 2023.
- Robert Steele, ‘Iran and the Ogaden War, 1977-78’, in Iran and Decolonisation: Politics and Resistance After Empire, ed. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet and Robert Steele, 237-271. London: Gingko Library, 2023.
- Marziyeh Bazyar and Robert Steele, ‘“The Shah’s House Became the People’s House”: Narrating Iran’s Modern History at the Pahlavi Dynasty Museum’, Iranian Studies, vol. 56, no. 3 (2023), 497-521.
- Robert Steele, ‘Iran’s Golden Age of Tourism: The Development of the Travel Industry in the Late Pahlavi Period (c.1960-1979)’, Journal of Tourism History, vol. 14, no. 3 (2022), 239-262.
- Robert Steele, ‘Crowning the “Sun of the Aryans”: Mohammad Reza Shah’s Coronation and Monarchical Spectacle in Pahlavi Iran’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, vol. 53, no. 2 (2021), 175-193.
- Robert Steele, ‘Two Kings of Kings: Iran-Ethiopia Relations under the Shah and Haile Selassie’, The International History Review, vol. 43, no. 6 (2021), 1375-1392.
- Robert Steele, ‘The Keur Farah Pahlavi Project and Iranian-Senegalese Relations in the 1970s’, Iranian Studies, vol. 54, no. 1-2 (2021), 169-192.