Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
- Mississauga (UTM)
Fields of Study
- Islamic Studies
- Persian Studies
Areas of Interest
- Scientific Imagination and Modern Persian Political Language
- Memory, History and Historiography
- Iranian Modernity, Nationalism and Islamism
- Orientalism and Occidentalism
- Islamic Modernity
Biography
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi is Professor of Historical Studies, History, and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. He was the founding Chair of the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Toronto-Mississauga (2004-07) and has served as President of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2008-10). In addition to serving as Editor-in-Chief of Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2001-2012), a Duke University Press journal, he was the Editor of Iran Nameh (2011-2015). He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Iran Namag, a bilingual quarterly of Iranian Studies, and is the co-editor of the Iranian Studies book series published by Routledge. With a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago, he is the recipient of two Outstanding Teacher awards from Illinois State University (1996 and 2001).
Education
Publications
- Identity Politics And Women: Cultural Reassertions And Feminisms In International Perspective (Taylor & Francis : 2020)
- Jahangir Amuzegar: Selected Economic Essays (Pardis-i Danish : 2018)
- Ayin-iDanishjuyan, January-July 1945: The First University of Tehran Student Journal (Tehran: Pardis-i Danish : 2016)
- Civilizational Wisdom: Selected Works of Ehsan Yarshater (Tehran: Pardis-i Danish : 2016)
- The Emergence of Clerico-Engineering as a Form of Governance in Iran (Iran Nameh : 2012)
- Early Persianate Modernity (Duke University Press, Durham : 2011)
- Narrative Identity in the Works of Hedayat and His Contemporaries (Routledge : 2011)
- Tajaddud-i bumi va bazandishi-yi tarikh (Nashr-i Tarikh-i Iran : 2003)
- Antinomies of Modernity Essays on Race, Orient, Nation (DUKE University Press : 2003)
- Society and Culture in Qajar Iran (Mazda Publishers : 2002)
- From Patriotism To Matriotism: A Tropological Study Of Iranian Nationalism, 1870–1909 (Cambridge University Press : 2002)
- The Homeless Texts Of Persianate Modernity (Cultural Dynamics : 2001)
- Refashioning Iran: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Nationalist Historiography (Palgrave Macmillan : 2001)
- Strategies: Journal of Theory, Culture and Politics (Strategies : 2000)
- Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran (Medieval History Journal : 1999)
- Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts (Duke University Press, Durham, NC : 1998)
- Rediscovering Munshi Newal Kishore (1836-1895) (South Asia Library Notes and Queries : 1993)
- Imagining Western Women: Occidentalism and Euro-eroticism (Radical America : 1990)