[2][3] Journalist and academic Stephen Kinzer has called him "the most persistent" of "a small but dedicated group of scholars [who] have devoted considerable effort to uncovering the truth about events surrounding the 1953 coup" in Iran,[4] an event so important (Kinzer believes) it "defined all of subsequent Iranian history and reshaped the world in ways that only now becoming clear.
[1] He directed LSU's International Studies Program from 2005 to 2008.
[1] He was a visiting professor at Tehran University in the Faculty of Law and Political Science in summer 1994, summer 1996, and winter 1998.
[1] He was a visiting fellow at the Middle East Centre of St. Antony's College, Oxford, from 2001-2002.
[1] Gasiorowski joined the faculty of Tulane University in 2013 as a professor of political science.