Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Persian: محمد توكلي طرقي; 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.[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

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.

References

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