Professor of Politics and Chair of the Department of Government and International Affairs at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Mohsen Milani has served as a research fellow at Harvard University, Oxford University’s St. Antony’s College, and the Foscari University in Venice, Italy.

He has written more than fifty academic articles, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries about the Persian Gulf, Iran’s revolution, and Iran’s foreign and security policies. His book, The Making of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, has been used as required reading in many universities in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Canada, and Iran. His most recent publications include “Tehran’s Take” (Foreign Affairs), “Iran’s Persian Gulf Policy” (in Contemporary Iran, Oxford University Press), "Iran's policy toward Afghanistan" (Middle East Journal), "Iran-Iraq Relations during the Pahlavi Era, 1921-79" (Encyclopedia Iranica), “The Tehran Hostage Crisis 1979” (Encyclopedia Iranica). He is currently working on a book project about Iran's regional policies.

Professor Milani is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences on Iran and the Persian Gulf. His expertise regarding Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, and the Persian Gulf has been solicited by private and governmental entities. He is the Book Series Editor on "Governance and International Relations in the Middle East" for the University of Florida Press.