Amin Gholami

- Me, Padua, Italy.

I am a Pre-doctoral research fellow at the University of Bologna as a collaborator of the Origins Project, working under the supervision of Prof. Guerriero.

I have received a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Bologna and before that, I received my B.Sc in Economics from the University of Tehran.

My research interests are Institutions, State Formation, and Historical Political Economy (HPE); This includes both the ancient world and the contemporary.

My work has been focused on Early Bronze Age societies in Mesopotamia and Egypt, where I analyze the effect of k.a. 4.2 BP mega-drought and the emergence of more inclusive political institutions.
I am also interested in studying the political and economic reformations in the Ottoman, Qajar, and Russian Empires, which resulted in a more competitive economy but failed to implement democratic institutions.
Furthermore, I have a project on the comparative study of state administration in Byzantine, Sassanid, and Islamic Empires.

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