Maziar Behrooz (Persian: مازیار بهروز; born 1959) is an Iranian-born American historian of modern Iran, and educator.
Maziar Behrooz was born in 1959, in Tehran, to Sara Khosrovi-Azarbaijani and Jahangir (Changiz) Behrouz.
Behrooz received his B.A degree in History-Political Science from Saint Mary's College of California (1982), his M.A.
One of his recent research project is about late-18th century to early 19th-century encounters between Persia and the Western world.
In 2023, San Francisco State University launched an investigation after a student complained that Behrooz had showed a depiction of Muhammad while teaching a class on the history of the Islamic world;[5] the investigation was strongly criticized by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression as an "unacceptable — and unconstitutional" violation of academic freedom.