Darius Rejali (born c. 1959) is an Iranian-born American academic specialized on

torture Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including corporal punishment, punishment, forced confession, extracting a confession, interrogational torture, interrogation for information, or intimid ...

, who taught political science at

Reed College Reed College is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Portland, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1908, Reed is a residential college with a campus in the Eastmoreland, Portland, Oregon, E ...

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Rejali obtained a

Bachelor of Arts A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts deg ...

Swarthmore College Swarthmore College ( , ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1864, with its first classes held in 1869, Swarthmore is one of the e ...

in 1981, a master in 1983, and a

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in political science from

McGill University McGill University (French: Université McGill) is an English-language public research university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter,Frost, Stanley Brice. ''McGill University, Vol. I. For the Advancement of Learning, ...

in 1987.Darius Rejali - Curriculum Vitae

He joined

as assistant professor in 1989, rose to associate professor in 1994, and has held a chair of Political Science since 2003. From 2000, he served at the board of the '' Human Rights Review''. He published ''Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran'' in 1994, and ''Torture and Democracy'' in 2007, which won the 2007 Human Rights Book of the Year Award from the American Political Science Association, and also the biennial 2009 Raphael Lemkin Award from the Institute for the Study of Genocide .

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Darius Rejali: Portland-based expert on state-sponsored torture answers some painful questions. {{DEFAULTSORT:Rejali, Darius McGill University alumni Reed College faculty Living people Swarthmore College alumni 1950s births Iranian emigrants to the United States Year of birth missing (living people)