• Bloomsbury Academic, is inviting book proposals for a new Open Access, peer reviewed academic book series: IHF Modern Iran Series
• The Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) is supporting successful applicants with Open Access publications
• To submit a proposal to the series, please fill in this form and submit it to Rory Gormley (rory.gormley@bloomsbury.com) and Hassan Hakimian (hh2@soas.ac.uk)
• This is a third-round call for book proposals since the series started in 2025, and the deadline for submissions is 31 August 2026.

The IHF Modern Iran Series publishes innovative Open Access books with a broad thematic focus on modern and contemporary Iran. The chronological scope of the series covers the late nineteenth century to the present day with thematic areas ranging from cultural and social to political and economic issues. Single and co-authored volumes as well as edited volumes are eligible for consideration. Themes and topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• History and Geopolitics

• State and Society 
• Social and Civic Movements 
• Nationalism, Ethnicity and Regional Studies 
• Law and Legal History 
• History of Ideas 
• Religion, Politics and Intellectuals 
• Economic and Business History 
• Economic Sanctions 
• Comparative Economic Development 
• Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Rights movements 
• Language and Persian literature 
• Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 
• Communication, Film and Media Studies 
• Education 
• Environment and Climate Change 
• Medicine and Public Health 
• Science and Technology

Series Editor

Hassan Hakimian, Emeritus Professor of Economics, SOAS University of London

 Advisory Board 

• Abbas Amanat, William Graham Sumner Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
• Sussan Babaie, Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
• Orkideh Behrouzan, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology, SOAS University of London 
• Rasmus Christian Elling, Associate Professor, Middle East Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen 
• Kevan Harris, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-Los Angeles 
• Pamela Karimi, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Cornell University 
• Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies and Director of Iranian Studies Initiative, New York University 
• Nasrin Rahimieh, Howard Baskerville Professor of Humanities in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine. 

Publishing and Peer Review Process 

All books in the series will be subject to peer review overseen by the Series Editor and Advisory Board. They will be published in initial hardback and Open Access eBook editions, with paperback editions following 18 months after initial publication.

Iran Heritage Foundation (IHF) will provide support for Open Access publication costs of successful proposals competitively selected by the Editorial Board.

Updated June 2026