Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi Explained

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
Native Name:محمد توكلي طرقي
Native Name Lang:fa
Other Names:Muḥammad Tavakkulī Ṭarqī, Mohamad Tavakoli
Birth Place:Tehran, Iran
Alma Mater:University of Iowa,
University of Chicago
Occupation:Scholar, editor, author, professor, program director
Known For:Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Orientalism, Gender Studies

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (; 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]

Biography

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi was born in 1957 in Tehran, Iran. 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.

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;[7] and at Iran Nameh from 2011 until 2015. He was previously served as the president of the International Society for Iranian Studies in 2009 to 2010.[8]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad, 1957- . 2022-05-11 . LC Name Authority File (LCNAF), The Library of Congress.
  2. Web site: September 21, 2009 . UTM prof to lecture in Chicago . 2022-05-26 . . Torstar Syndication Services, a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. . en-CA . 0834-6585.
  3. Web site: Mina . Nima . 2018 . Seminar: Rights Governmentality in Post-World War II Iran . 2022-05-11 . Centre for Iranian Studies, SOAS University of London . en.
  4. Web site: Tavakoli-Targhi, Mohamad . 2022-05-26 . Middle East Studies Association (MESA).
  5. Web site: Josephsen . Kelly . January 17, 2002 . Interest in Islam Soaring . subscription . 2022-05-11 . Newspapers.com . The Pantagraph . 3 . en.
  6. Web site: January 19, 2022 . University of Toronto collaborates with Encyclopedia Iranica Foundation on study of Iranian women poets and cinema . 2022-05-11 . MyScience.org . en.
  7. Web site: Persian and Iranian Studies in Honor of Heshmat Moayyad . 2022-05-11 . Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), The University of Chicago.
  8. Web site: September 27, 2013 . International and national experts to discuss peace, democracy in the Middle East at Loyola . 2022-05-26 . Loyola at a Glance . Loyola University New Orleans.

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