Rudi Matthee

Rudolph P. Matthee, best known as Rudi Matthee (born 1953), is John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History in the History Department at the University of Delaware, teaching Middle Eastern history and specializing in the history of early modern Iran. He received his PhD in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Selected publications A selection of Matthee's works:

(Editor, with Beth Baron) Iran and Beyond: Essays in Middle Eastern History in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie, Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, CA), 2000.

(Editor, with Nikki R. Keddie) Iran and the Surrounding World: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics, University of Washington Press (Seattle, WA), 2002.

(Editor) The Safavid World , Routledge, 2021.

Awards Matthee has been awarded numerous prizes for his oeuvre: Albert Hourani Book prize (2006). Awarded by the Middle East Association of North America Saidi Sirjani Award (2004-2005). Awarded by the International Society for Iranian Studies British-Kuwaiti Friendship Book Prize (2012) Best foreign-language book on Iran (twice, awarded by the Iranian Ministry of Culture)