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Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi
Born1951 (age 72–73)[1]
Iran
Other namesNayyirah Tawhidi
Alma materUniversity of Tehran,
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,
California State University, Northridge

Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi (Persian: نیره توحیدی; born 1951)[2][1] is an Iranian-born American professor, researcher, and academic administrator. Tohidi is a professor emerita and former chair of gender and women’s studies, and the founding director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic studies (from 2011 to 2021) at California State University, Northridge.[3]

She is also a research associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she had coordinated the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since 2003.[4] She specializes in the fields of gender, Islam, feminism, modernity, and democracy; ethnicity and ethno-religious movements; and human and women's rights in the Persianate and Turkic Societies of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.[5][unreliable source?]

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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.[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 Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan; post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University;[7] the Hoover Institute of Stanford University; the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars;[8] and the Keddie-Balzan Fellowship at the Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA.[9]

She has held visiting positions at the University of Iowa, the University of Minnesota, Harvard University, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of Southern California (USC).[when?] In 2015, she was awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop and launch a minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in California State University, Northridge.[10][11]

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. Her work has appeared in Ms. magazine.[12]

Education

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Publications

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Books

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  • Feminism, Demokracy ve Islamgarayi (English: Feminism, Democracy and Islamism in Iran) (1996) [in Persian] (Los Angeles, CA: Ketab Sara Co., 1996; reprinted in Iran, 1998).
  • Bodman, Herbert L.; Tohidi, Nayereh, eds. (1998). Women in Muslim Societies: Diversity within Unity. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 9781555875787.
  • Tohidi, Nayereh; Bayes, Jane, eds. (2011). Globalization, Religion, and Gender: the Politics of Women's Rights in Catholic and Muslim Contexts. New York City, NY: Palgrave. ISBN 9780333947043.

Selected articles

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  • “Iran: les femmes dans la politique” in afkar/idées: Revue trimestrielle pour le dialogue entre le Maghreb, ľ Espagne et ľ Europe, No. 23, automne 2009, pp. 42–46.
  • “Women and the Presidential Elections: Iran’s New Political Culture” in Informed Comment, September 3, 2009
  • “Iran's Women's Rights Activists Are Being Smeared” in Women's e NEWS, 9/17/2008
  • “Change in the ‘Family Law,’ the Last Stage of Secularization?”] In The Feminist School, June 17, 2008 (28 Khordad 1387), pp. 1-22
  • “Ethnic and Minority Politics in Iran” (La politica sobre minorias ethnicas religiosas) in VANGURDIA Dossier: Iran por dentro, Numero 24, Julio/Septembre 2007: 90-95 (in Spanish language, Barcelona, Spain).
  • “Ta`amol Mahali-Jahani Feminism dar Jonbesh-e Zanan-e Iran” [The Local-Global Intersection of Feminism in the Women's Movement in Iran] in Arash: A Persian Monthly of Culture and Social Affairs, No. 100, October 2007: 163-168 www.arashmag.com
  • “One Million Sisters: US Feminists Rally in Support of Women’s Rights in Iran”. In Ms. Magazine, Fall 2007, p. 18.
  • “Iran: Regionalism, Ethnicity and Democracy", in Open Democracy (June 29, 2006)
  • “Women at the Forefront of the Democracy Movement in Iran", The International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, Vol. 7, Issue 3 (June 2005)
  • “In Memoriam: On Parvin Paidar” in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 39:2, (December 2005): [Longer version printed in six Internet and Print Journals: Iranian.com; Iran-emrooz.net; Iranokht.com; womeniniran.com; iftribune.com; Rahavard]
  • "Revolution? What's in it for them? Globalized Iranian American women are nudging their homeland toward democracy", in The Los Angeles Times (July 31, 2005)
  • “Women, Civil Society, and NGOs in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan,” in International Journal of Not-for-Profit Law, Vol. 7, No. 1 (November 2004)
  • “No to Forced Veiling and No to Forced Unveiling: An Analysis of the French Law Banning the Headscarf” in Iranian Feminists Tribune, (December 31, 2003)
  • “The Iranian Feminist Movement’s Global Connections” [Peyvand-e jahani-ye Jonbesh-e Zanane Iran] in Journal of Goft-O-Gu (Dialogue on Culture and Society), No. 38, Azar 1382 (December 2003), Tehran: 25–49. [Translated from the book chapter # 4 above]
  • “Women’s Rising Self-Consciousness and Empowerment versus Recent Cases of Misogyny in Iran,” (Roshd agahi ve tavanmandi zanan ve nemoodha-ye tazeh az zan-setizi") in Iran-Emrooz, 25 Shahrivar 1382, in Persian (September 2003)
  • “’Zanan’ Has Come to Bridge, Not to Separate" in Zanan (monthly journal in Persian published in Iran), Vo. 12, No. 100, Khordad 1382 (June 2003).
  • “Student Movement: The Harbinger of a New Era in Iran” in ISIM Newsletter (International Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World), No. 4 (1999).
  • “Women and Rights in Central Asia” in CIRA Bulletin (Center for Iranian Research and Analysis), Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 1999).
  • “Jensiyyat, Moderniyyat, ve Demokracy, Part II” (Modernity, Tradition and Democracy) in Jens-e Dovvom (The Second Sex: Quarterly on Women's Studies) [in Persian, Tehran, Iran] Vol. 4 (January 2000): 26–42.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Globalization, gender and religion : the politics of women's rights in Catholic and Muslim contexts". SOAS University of London.
  2. ^ "Tawḥīdī, Nayyirah". LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
  3. ^ Dr. Tohidi's Faculty page at CSUN
  4. ^ "A History of Women's Social Movement Activities in Los Angeles, 1960-1999: Oral Histories". UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Archived from the original on December 3, 2013. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  5. ^ Gender; University, Women's Studies © California State; Street, Northridge 18111 Nordhoff; Northridge; Us, CA 91330 Phone:677-1200 / Contact (2014-05-06). "Nayereh Tohidi". California State University, Northridge. Retrieved 2022-05-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ Nayerehohidi, "Guardians of the Nation': Women, Islam and the Soviet Legacy of Modernization In Azerbaijan", Journal of Azerbaijani Studies.
  7. ^ "Nayereh Tohidi". wsrp.hds.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  8. ^ "Nayereh Tohidi | Wilson Center". www.wilsoncenter.org. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  9. ^ "Nayereh Tohidi". interview-her.com. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  10. ^ "NEH grant products: Creating a New Minor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at CSUN". securegrants.neh.gov. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  11. ^ "Nayereh Tohidi, Ph.D. | CSU". www.calstate.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
  12. ^ "Iranian Feminist Narges Mohammadi is in Danger". Ms. Magazine. January 8, 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-13.
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