Eric James Hooglund (born March 18, 1944) is an American political scientist and an expert on contemporary Iran.
[1] Since 2010 he has been a senior research professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.
During his doctoral field research in Iran in the early 1970s, he worked with Hamid Enayat, Nader Afshar Naderi, Javad Safinejad and Mostafa Azkia.
His dissertation on the politics of land reform became his first published book, Land and Revolution in Rural Iran, 1960–1980, and it shows the influence of the ideas of James Scott, Eric Wolf, and Barrington Moore, Jr. on his approach to the study of peasant societies and rural resistance movements.
[4] He also has worked for several Middle East-focused non-governmental organizations, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, the National Security Archive, and the Institute for Palestine Studies.