Indiana State University associate professor and chair of the faculty senate James Gustafson will serve as the Royden B. Davis Visiting Chair in Iranian History at Georgetown University in fall 2025.
This appointment is given to an internationally recognized scholar who trains Georgetown students in foreign affairs, governmental service, and the humanities.
“This invitation from Georgetown is a great honor. It speaks to the excellent research that Indiana State produces across campus,” Gustafson said in an ISU news release. “It is especially meaningful given that my new book grew out of an interdisciplinary collaboration between History and Earth and Environmental Systems and I will get to highlight that to a new audience.”
Gustafson will teach two courses: a survey of Iran’s history from antiquity to the present and an advanced seminar on Iran’s modern environmental history.
Indiana State’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dr. Christopher Olsen, stated, “I want to congratulate Dr. Gustafson on this well-deserved appointment. It confirms what many of us on campus have recognized for years: he is a world-class scholar and faculty member acknowledged throughout the country and, indeed, around the world.”
Gustafson is a decorated scholar and historian. He recently released a new book that explores Iranian history from an environmental perspective.
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