Shiva Tohidi Booth

Shiva Tohidi Booth is a PhD student in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. She holds both a BA in History and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations from the University of Toronto, specializing in early modern and modern Iranian history. Her doctoral research examines the historical development of medicine in nineteenth-century Iran, with particular emphasis on cholera pandemics and its impact on print culture and lithography. She currently serves as a Research Assistant for the Cinema Iranica Project at the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies in collaboration with the Encyclopaedia Iranica Foundation (EIF). She is the recipient of a SSHRC CGS-D award for her doctoral research on the development of medicine in nineteenth-century Iran.

Education

• M.A. in Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
• B.A. in History, University of Toronto
• Liberal Arts Diploma, George Brown College
• B.S. in Medical Laboratory Sciences, Medical School Iran

Current Supervisor(s)

Mohammad Tavakoli-Targhi

Dissertation Title

Cholera in Print: The Dissemination of Public and Scientific Discourse in the Age of Pandemics

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant - The Islamic World (NMC103)
• Teaching Assistant - For the Love of the Prophet: Muhammad in the Islamic Tradition (NMC240)
• Teaching Assistant - Getting Justice: Women, Slaves, and Religious Minorities in the Courts of the Pre-Modern Middle East (NMC308)