Homa Katouzian is a social scientist, historian, literary critic and poet. He is the Iran Heritage Research Fellow at St. Antony's College, and a Member of the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, as well as an honorary fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter and editor of Iranian Studies. He obtained all of his university degrees in England and became Lecturer in Economics at the University of Leeds, 1968-69, and Lecturer (later Senior Lecturer) in Economics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, 1969-1986. He has held a number of prestigious international fellowships and faculty positions. He was a Member of the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton in 2001, a Visiting Professor of Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, in 1990, a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1985, an Economic Consultant for UNCTAD, UN, Geneva, in 1982, a Visiting Associate Professor of Economics at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1977-78, and a Visiting Iranian Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford in1975-76. He has published widely in English, in other European languages, and in Persian. His publications include: Iranian History and Politics: the Dialectic of State and Society (RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), Sadeq Hedayat: the Life and Legend of an Iranian Writer (I. B. Tauris, 1991 & 2002), State and Society in Iran: The Eclipse of the Qajars and the Emergence of the Pahlavis (I. B. Tauris, 2000), Musaddiq and the Struggle for Power in Iran, (I. B. Tauris, 1990 & 1999), Musaddiq's Memoirs (Jebhe, 1988), The Political Economy of Modern Iran (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1981), and Ideology and Method in Economics (Macmillan and New York University Press, 1980).