STEPHANIE CRONIN is Departmental Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, UK. She has also held an Iran Heritage Foundation fellowship for many years. She is the author of
The Army and the Creation of the Pahlavi State in Iran 1910-1925 (1997) and
Tribal Politics in Iran: Rural Conflict and the New State, 1921-1941 (2006), and editor of
The Making of Modern Iran: State and Society under Riza Shah, 1921-1941 (2003);
Reformers and Revolutionaries in Modern Iran: New Perspectives on the Iranian Left (2004) and
Subalterns and Social Protest: History from Below in the Middle East and North Africa (2007). She is currently working on a book on state-building in tribal societies.