Staff
Director, Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies
Professor (by courtesy), in Stanford's Global Studies Division
Professor Milani is the Director of the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies, co-director of the Iran Democracy Project and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. His expertise is U.S.-Iran relations as well as Iranian cultural, political, and security issues. Milani is the author of "Modernity and Its Foes in Iran" (Gardon Press, 1998); "The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution" (Mage, 2000); "Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran" in English (Mage 2004) and Persian (Ketob Corp. 2004); "The Myth of the Great Satan" (Hoover Institution Press, 2010). His latest book is "The Shah" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). His own Persian version of the book has also been published inside and outside Iran. Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English. His articles have been published in journals, magazines, and newspapers including The Washington Quarterly, the Encyclopedia Iranica, the Hoover Digest, Iranshenasi, the Journal of the Middle East, Middle East Journal, and the New York Review of Books.
amilani [at] stanford [dot] edu
Program Manager
Roma Parhad was born in southern Portugal and has studied, traveled, and lived abroad. A northern California native, she earned her bachelor’s degree in political science and international studies at the University of California, Irvine and her master’s degree in international relations from New York University. Prior to joining the Iranian Studies Program at Stanford, she worked with WNYC public radio, Carnegie Council’s journal Ethics and International Affairs, two Congressional offices, and held an internship at the Council on Foreign Relations.
rparhad [at] stanford [dot] edu
Program Assistant
Franco received his BA in Japanese from UC Berkeley in 2006. He worked previously at Stanford in the Department of Biology, holding several positions there. He enjoys photography and traveling the Bay Area in his spare time.
ferrico [at] stanford [dot] edu
