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Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Professor of History
and Near and Middle Eastern
Civilizations at the University of Toronto and the University of Toronto Mississauga.
Since 2002 he has served as the Editor of Comparative
Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, a Duke
University Press journal, and has served on the editorial board
of Iranian
Studies, the Journal of the International Society for Iranian
Studies.
His areas of specialization encompass Middle Eastern History,
Modernity, Nationalism, Gender Studies, Orientalism, and Occidentalism.
He is the author of two books, Refashioning Iran: Orientalism,
Occidentalism and Nationalist Historiography (Palgrave, 2001)
and Tajaddud-i Bumi [Vernacular Modernity] (in Persian, Nashr-i
Tarikh, 2003). He has authored numerous articles: “The
Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity,” in Iran--Between
Tradition and Modernity (Lexington Books, 2004); “Orientalist
Studies and Its Amnesia,” in Antinomies of Modernity (Duke,
2002), “Eroticizing Europe,” in Society and Culture
in Qajar Iran: (Mazda, 2002); “Women of the West Imagined,”
in Identity Politics and Women (Westview Press, 1994); “From
Patriotism to Matriotism: A Tropological Study of Iranian Nationalism,
1870-1909," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
(2002), “Inventing Modernity, Borrowing Modernity,”
Iran
Nameh (2003).
Born and raised in the “navel of Tehran,” Iran,
Professor Tavakoli is the recipient of two Outstanding Teacher
awards from Illinois State University (1996 and 2001); a Research
Initiative Award (1992); and visiting fellowships at St. Antony’s
College, Oxford University (1998), the Center for Historical
Studies Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi, 1992-93); and
Harvard University (1991-92).
He has initiated numerous conferences and workshops on topical
issues pertaining to the Middle East, and has encouraged the
active involvement of student associations in the organization
of scholarly events and community outreach programs. He holds
a BA in Political Science and an MA in History from the University
of Iowa, and a PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
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