Nationality Iran United States | Name Nayereh Tohidi | |
Fields Sociology, Gender studies, Islamic studies |
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Professor Nayereh Tohidi is Professor and former Chair at the Department of Gender & Women Studies, California State University, Northridge. She is also the Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies of UCLA, where she has been coordinating the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since 2003.
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- 25th iwsf a speech by nayereh tohidi
- Interview with dr nayereh tohidi
- Education
- Areas of specialization
- Books
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Her teaching and research areas include sociology of gender, religion (Islam), ethnicity and democracy in the Middle East and post-Soviet Central Eurasia, especially Iran and Azerbaijan Republic. She is the recipient of several grants, fellowships and research awards, including a year of Fulbright lectureship and research at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan; post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University; the Hoover Institute of Stanford University; the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and the Keddie-Balzan Fellowship at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA. She has held visiting positions at Universities of Iowa, Minnesota, Harvard, UCLA, and USC. Recently she has been awarded the National Endowment Grant for Humanities to develop and launch a minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in California State University, Northridge.
Tohidi’s publications include editorship or authorship of Globalization, Gender and Religion: The Politics of Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts; Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity; and Feminism, Democracy and Islamism in Iran.
Interview with dr nayereh tohidi
Education
Areas of specialization
Gender, Islam, Feminism, Modernity and Democracy; Ethnicity and Ethno-Religious Movements; Human/Women Rights in the Persianate and Turkic Societies of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia
Books
- Globalization, Religion, and Gender: the Politics of Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts, co-editor and contributor with Jane Bayes (New York: Palgrave, 2001).
- Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity, co-editor and contributor with Herbert Bodman (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998).
- Feminism, Demokrasy ve Islamgarayi dar Iran (Feminism, Democracy and Islamism in Iran) [in Persian] (Los Angeles: Ketabsara Inc., 1996, reprinted in Iran, 1998).