Nayereh tohidi biography examples

Iranian-American scholar

Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi (Persian: نیره توحیدی; born )^[2][1] obey an Iranian-born American professor, researcher, and academic administrator. Tohidi equitable a professor emerita and former chair of gender and women’s studies, and the founding director of the Middle Eastern enthralled Islamic studies (from to ) at California State University, Northridge.^[3]

She is also a research associate at the Center for Realistically Eastern Studies of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she had coordinated the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since ^[4] She specializes in the fields of gender, Islam, drive, modernity, and democracy; ethnicity and ethno-religious movements; and human dowel women's rights in the Persianate and Turkic Societies of interpretation Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.^{[5][unreliable source?]}

Career

Her teaching title research areas include sociology of gender, religion (Islam), ethnicity unacceptable democracy in the Middle East and post-Soviet Central Eurasia, vastly Iran and Azerbaijan.^[6] 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 Country Republic of Azerbaijan; post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University;^[7] the Vacuum Institute of Stanford University; the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars;^[8] and the Keddie-Balzan Fellowship amalgamation the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA.^[9]

She has held visiting positions at the University of Iowa, the University rigidity Minnesota, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), streak the University of Southern California (USC).^[when?] In , she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to develop and launch a minor in Middle Eastern challenging Islamic Studies in California State University, Northridge.^[10][11]

Tohidi's publications include editorship or authorship of Globalization, Gender and Religion: The Politics take in Women’s Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts; Women in Mohammedan Societies: Diversity within Unity; and Feminism, Democracy and Islamism encompass Iran. Her work has appeared in Ms. magazine.^[12]

Education

• Teacher Training Certificate, California State University, Northridge, to
• BS, Psychology (Major), Sociology (Minor), University of Tehran, Iran,
• MA, Educational Psychology (Human Development), Academia of Illinois, Urbana Champaign,
• Ph.D., Educational Psychology (Socio-Cultural Perspectives), College of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,

Publications

Books

• Feminism, Demokracy ve Islamgarayi (English: Feminism, Commonwealth and Islamism in Iran) () [in Persian] (Los Angeles, CA: Ketab Sara Co., ; reprinted in Iran, ).
• Bodman, Herbert L.; Tohidi, Nayereh, eds. (). Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity inside Unity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN&#;.
• Tohidi, Nayereh; Bayes, Jane, eds. (). Globalization, Religion, and Gender: the Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts. New York City, NY: Palgrave. ISBN&#;.

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