Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Vice Provost and Dean of the College of Arts, Sciences, and Education (CASE), 7/2022-present
- Professor of History and Political Science, 7/2022-present
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
- Director of the School of Public and International Affairs Affairs (SPIA), 8/2019-6/2022
- Professor of Government and International Affairs, 8/2019-6/2022
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Visiting Scholar, Center for Near Eastern Studies, 2017-2018
American Council on Education (ACE)
- ACE Fellow at California State University Northridge (CSUN), 2017-2018
Editorial Boards
- Editorial Board Member, IRAN (Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies), 2019-present
- Editorial Board Member, Iranian Studies Journal, 2015-present
- Book Review Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2002-2007
- Founding Editor, Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East Book Series, 1996-2014
- Editorial Board Member, Syracuse University Press, 1995-1998
Syracuse University
- Inaugural Provost’s Faculty Fellow for Internationalization, 2015-2017
- Co-Chair, Internationalization Council, 2016-2017
- Affiliated Faculty, Institute for Security Policy and Law, 2015-2019
- Syracuse University Representative to ACE‘s Internationalization Laboratory, 2015-2017
- Syracuse University Representative to ACE’s Institute for Leading Internationalization
- O’Hanley Faculty Scholar, 2014-2019
- Co-Chair, Academic Strategic Plan Working Group on Enhancing Internationalization, 2014-2016
- Chair of Political Science Department, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, 2014-2017
- Professor of Political Science, 2014-2019
- Founding Co-Director, Religion, Media & International Affairs Program, 2006-2009
- Founding Director, Middle Eastern Studies Program, 2003-2014
- Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 2001-2004
- Associate Professor of Political Science, 1998-2014
- Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1992-1998
International Society for Iranian Studies [now renamed Association for Iranian Studies]
- President (elected by members), 2012-2014
Near East Foundation (NEF)
- Member of the Board of Directors, 2010-2019
Middle East Institute (MEI)
- Non-Resident Scholar in Public Policy, 2005-2016
University of Texas at Austin
Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1991-1992
Harvard University
- Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 1990-1991
