By Dr Eric Hooglund at Cafelitt in collaboration with Mekic \nhttp://cafelitt.ca/archive/2013/04/248-irans-rural-development-four-decades-of-research.php\n\nEric James Hooglund is an American political scientist and an expert on contemporary Iran. Since 2010 he has been a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Lund University in Sweden.\nHooglund was born in Waterville