Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is proud to share that the “Dangerous Classes” in the Middle East and North Africa conference, organized by Roshan Institute Visiting Research Fellow, Dr. Stephanie Cronin, was successfully held on January 26, 2017, at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, with more than 100 in attendance.
The concept of the “dangerous classes” was born in mid-nineteenth century Europe and became famous after the publication in 1872 in New York of a book with the same title by the American social reformer Charles Loring Brace. The conference took as its central theme this notion of the “dangerous classes”. Sessions were led by ten scholars who examined its explanatory power when applied to the Middle East and North Africa in the period from around 1800 to the present.
Dr. Cronin is currently the Roshan Institute Visiting Research Fellow at St. Antony’s College (2015-2018) and a Lecturer in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. She has also held an Iran Heritage Foundation fellowship for many years. She is the author of many books on modern Iranian history and is currently working on a social history of modern Iran “from below”. Dr. Cronin received her Ph.D. in History (1992) and her M.A. in Middle East Studies (1981) from the School of Oriental and African Studies.
