People

Dr. Abbas Milani

Director, Hamid & Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies and Visiting Professor of Political Science

Professor Milani is a research fellow and co-director of the Iran Democracy Project 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 The Persian Sphinx: Amir Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (Mage, 2000); Modernity and Its Foes in Iran (Gardon Press, 1998).). His latest book is Lost Wisdom: Rethinking Persian Modernity in Iran in English (Mage 2004) and Persian (Ketob Corp. 2004). Milani has also translated numerous books and articles into Persian and English. His s 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.

Pasang Sherpa

Program Administrator

psherpa@stanford.edu
P: 650.724.0939
Pasang Sherpa was born in Kathmandu, Nepal and completed her education in India. She earned her undergraduate degree in Finance from Santa Clara University. She is multi-lingual and enjoys travelling, learning about different cultures and people. She is also very interested in working with troubled children and hopes to pursue her graduate degree in Child Psychology.