He is the Founding Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Program and Co-Director of the Religion, Media and International Program, a program funded by a three-year grant from the Henry R. Luce Foundation in 2006. As a Middle East expert and a leading Iran expert, Boroujerdi has authored multiple books and articles, including Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism (1996). Boroujerdi is currently working on a book manuscript about the political elite of post-revolutionary Iran. Boroujerdi is the general editor of the Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East series published by Syracuse University Press.