Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Canadian professor, program director (born 1957)
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Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Persian: محمد توکلی طرقی; born 1957)[1] is an Iranian-born Canadian scholar, editor, author, professor, and program director. He is a professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,[2] and he serves as the Director of Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Tavakoli-Targhi's areas of research include Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Gender Studies, modernity, nationalism, Orientalism, and occidentalism.[3]
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi | |
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محمد توكلي طرقي | |
| Born | 1957 (age 68–69) |
| Other names | Muḥammad Tavakkulī Ṭarqī, Mohamad Tavakoli |
| Occupations | Scholar, editor, author, professor, program director |
| Known for | Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Orientalism, Gender Studies |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa, University of Chicago (PhD) |
| Thesis | The Formation of Two Revolutionary Discourses in Modern Iran: The Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 and the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979 (1988) |
Biography
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi was born in 1957 in Tehran, Iran.[1][3] He attended the University of Iowa, and received a BA degree (1980) in political science and an MA degree (1981) in history; and has a PhD (1988) in history from the University of Chicago.[4]
He previously taught history courses at the Illinois State University from 1989 to 2003.[5] He moved to the University of Toronto in 2004, where he is the first director of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies.[6] Starting in 2022, a multi-year research partnership was formed between the Encyclopædia Iranica and the University of Toronto, under Tavakoli-Targhi's leadership.[6]
Tavakoli-Targhi has served as an editor including at the academic journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 2001 until 2012;[3][7] and at Iran Nameh from 2011 until 2015.[7] He was previously served as the president of the International Society for Iranian Studies in 2009 to 2010.[8]
Publications
Books
- Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (1988). The Formation of Two Revolutionary Discourses in Modern Iran: The Constitutional Revolution of 1905-1909 and the Islamic Revolution of 1978-1979 (dissertation). University of Chicago, Department of History.
- Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (1991). The Exotic Europeans and the Reconstruction of Femininity in Iran. Middle East Studies Association of North America.
- Tavakoli-Targhi, M. (2001). Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography. St Antony's Series. Palgrave. ISBN 9781403918413.[9]
Articles and chapters
- Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad; Smith, Joan; Mazumdar, Sucheta; Tress, Madeleine (1994). Moghadam, Valentine M. (ed.). Identity Politics And Women: Cultural Reassertions And Feminisms In International Perspective. World Institute for Development Economics Research. Avalon Publishing. ISBN 9780813386928.
- Hashemi, Nader; Lotfalian, Mazyar; Ringer, Monica M.; Sadri, Ahmad; Siavoshi, Sussan; Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad; Tehranian, Majid; Vahdat, Farzin (2004). "The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity". In Jahanbegloo, Ramin (ed.). Iran: Between Tradition and Modernity. Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. pp. 129–158. ISBN 9780739105306.
- Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad (2008). "Anti-Baha'ism and Islamism in Iran". In Brookshaw, Dominic Parviz; Fazel, Seena B. (eds.). The Baha'is of Iran: Socio-historical studies. New York City, NY: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-00280-3.