Edward Wastnidge
Email: edward.wastnidge@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
PhD title: A Dialogue among Civilised Nations? Iranian cultural foreign Policy during the Khatami era.
Supervisors: Professor Edmund Herzig (Oxford) Doctor Oliver Bast (Manchester)
Main discipline areas: Persian Studies, Middle Eastern Studies.
Research specialism:
- Iranian foreign policy during the Khatami era (1997-2005)(AHRC funded).
- Modern Iranian History.
- Iran-Central Asia relations.
- Political and Historical Geography, Geopolitics.
Conference Presentations:
- British Institute of Persian Studies. Durham, December 2007.
- Biennial Conference of Iranian Studies. Toronto, July 2008.
Membership of Professional Organisations
- International Society for Iranian Studies
- British Institute of Persian Studies
- British Society for Middle Eastern Studies.
Teaching Areas:
- Contemporary Middle East
Professional biography:
- BSc (Hons.)Human Geography. 1st Class. University of Plymouth. 2002.
- MA Middle Eastern Studies. University of Manchester. 2005.