Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
محمد توكلي طرقي
Born1957 (age 66–67)
Tehran, Iran
Other namesMuḥammad Tavakkulī Ṭarqī, Mohamad Tavakoli
Alma materUniversity of Iowa,
University of Chicago
Occupation(s)Scholar, editor, author, professor, program director
Known forIranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Orientalism, Gender Studies

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

  • 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

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