Robert Steele is a historian of modern Iran whose work focuses on cultural policy and Iran’s global interactions during the late Pahlavi period (c.1960-1979). He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies in 2018, and from 2019 until 2021 was the inaugural Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Postdoctoral Fellow in Modern Iranian History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.