Professor Tavakoli's Curriculum Vitae
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi m.tavakoli@utoronto.ca | mtavakoli.com Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto, 4 Bancroft Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1C1 Phone: 416-978-5039; fax: 416-978-3305 I. EDUCATION B.A. in Political Science, University of Iowa, 1980. II. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE & DISTINCTIONS Editor-in-Chief, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (Duke University Press), 2001-present.Co-editor, present. President, International Society for Iranian Studies, November 2008-2010. President-Elect, International Society for Iranian Studies, November 2007-08. Chair, Conference Program Committee, The Seventh Biennial Conference of the International Society for Iranian Studies, Toronto, 2006-2008. Editorial Board, Editorial Board, Iranian Studies: Journal of the International Society for Iranian Studies, 2005-present. Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 2005. Outstanding University Teacher, Illinois State University, 2000-2001. Iranian Fellowship, St. Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, Spring 1998. Associate Editor, Outstanding Social Science Teacher, College of Arts and Sciences, Illinois State University, 1996. Visiting Scholar, Center for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 1992-93. Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, 1992-93. Faculty Associate, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1991-92. Research Initiative Award, Illinois State University, 1992. Visiting Faculty Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Summer 1991. III. TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Toronto, Department of History and Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Professor, 2004-present. University of Toronto at Mississauga, Department of Historical Studies, Professor, 2004-present. Chair, Department of Historical Studies, University of Toronto Mississauga, 2004-2007. University of Toronto, Department of History and Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Visiting Associate Professor, 2004-2004. Illinois State University, Department of History, Professor, 2004. Illinois State University, Department of History, Associate Professor, 1996-2003. Washington University, Department of History, Visiting Associate Professor, 1997. Illinois State University, Department of History, Assistant Professor, 1989-1996. North Central College, Department of History, Visiting Lecturer, Summer 1990. North Central College, Religious Studies, Visiting Lecturer, Summer 1989. IV. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Iranian and Middle Eastern History, Modernity, Nationalism, Gender Studies, Orientalism, and Occidentalism V. TEACHING ASSIGNMENTS UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO (ST. GEORGE & MISSISSAUGA) Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations NMC2080Y: Theory and Method in Middle Eastern Studies NMC2180H: Iranian Modernity NMC359H: The Iranian Constitutional Revolution NMC373Y: Turkey and Iran in the Twentieth Century Department of History Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 2 HIS1784H-S: The Islamic Revolution HIS 496H1-S L0301: Topics in History: Travelers and Scholars East/West Department of Historical Studies (UTM) HIS397H: Iran’s Islamic Revolution HIS396H: Modernity and Islam HIS395H: Orientalism and Occidentalism HIS101H: Introduction to Historical Studies ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY History 104.4: Middle Eastern History History 126: Histories and Cultures of the Middle East and South Asia History 203: Nations and Narration History 271: Islamic Civilization History 272: Modern Middle Eastern History History 296: Historiography and Historical Method History 378: Islam History & English 389.72: Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination History 496: Historiography and Philosophy of History History 525: Interpretive Problems in Non-Western History VI. PUBLICATIONS Works in Progress Futures Past: Modernity, Memory and Cultural Politics in Iran (book manuscript, to be completed May 2012). Rahim M. Irvani: The Making of a Cosmopolitan Iranian (to be completed by August 2013). Books association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, 2001). Iran, 2003). Book Chapters University Press, 2010), 257-287. “Historiography and Crafting Iranian National Identity,” in Touraj Atabaki (London: I.B.Tauris Publishers, 2009), 5-18. “Narrative Identity in the Works of Hedayat and his contemporaries,” in Sadeq Hidayat” His Work and his wonderous world , ed. Homa Katouzian (Londond: Routledge, 2008), 107-123. “The Homeless Texts of Persianate Modernity,” in (Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2004). “Orientalist Studies and Its Amnesia,” in Kaiwar and Sucheta Mazumdar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2002). “Eroticizing Europe,” in Mesa, Calif.: Mazda Publishers, 2002). “Women of the West Imagined: The Farangi Other and the Emergence of the Women Question in Iran,” in Westview Press, 1994), 98-120. Articles (April2010/Murdad 1389), 56-59. “Sarmayahdari Milli: Muhammad Rahim Mutaqqi Irvani, Bunyanguzar-i Kafsh-i Milli [National Capitalism: Muhammad Rahim Irvani, The Foundader of Melli Shoes],” 2009/Zimistan 1387), 421-458. “ 1387/2008), 5453-54. “Ayin-i Danishjuyan va Danishgah-i Tehran,” Rahavard, no 82 (Spring 2008), 77-104. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 3 “Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia: The obliteration of the contribution of the Rest by the West” Biblio: A Review of Books XI: 3-4 (March-April 2006). Also available at com/archives/06/MA06/tocMA06.asp?mp=MA06>. “Tajaddud-i Ikhtira‘i, Tamadun-i ‘Ariyati va Inqilab-i Ruhani” [Inventing Modernity, Borrowing Modernity], Iran Namah 20:2-3 (Spring/Summer 2002). “From Patriotism to Matriotism: A Tropological Study of Iranian Nationalism, 1870-1909” Eastern Studies 34 (2002), 217-238.“Tau Vatan Bishnas Ay Khajah Nukhust: Digardisi-i 'Vatan' va Paydayish-I Nafs-i Mashrutah-kh Duktur Mahmud Afshar, 1381/2002), jild 13, 354-411. “Frontline Mysticism and Eastern Spirtuality,” “Aspects of Modernity: On Iranian History and Gender,” http://www.iranian.com/Books/2001/December/Modernity/index.html, 1-7. “The Homeless Texts of Persinate Modernity,” Cultural Dynamics, 13:3 (November 2001), 263-291.“Anti-Baha’ism and Islamism in Iran 1941-1955 = Baha’I sitizi va Islamgarati dar Iran, 1941-1955,” (Winter/Spring 2001), 79-124. “Paykarmandi va Farrahmandi-i Vatan [Anthromorphizing and Empowering the Homeland, Part I],” Iranian Journal of Culture and Politics 8:4 (Winter 2000), 162-177.“Paykar-i Madaranah-'i Vatan [Anthromorphizing and Empowering the Homeland, Part II].” Journal of Culture and Politics 9:1-2 (Spring/Summer 2000), 202-216.“Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses” “Contested Memories of Pre-Islamic Iran” Medieval History Journal 2:2 (1999), 245-275.“Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts” (1998/99), 2-13. “Women of the West Imagined: Persian Occidentalism, Euro-eroticism, and Modernity,” 1997), 19-22. “Nigarish bah Zanan-i Farang [The Erotic Gaze and European Women],” “Nigaran-i Zan-i Farang: Bah Azadi Tafakhur Darand va bah Khud'sari Tashakur,” Nimeye Digar: Persian LanguageFeminist Journal 2 (1996), 149-175. “Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia,” “Crafting History and Fashioning Iran: The Reconstruction of Iranian Identity in Modernist Historical Narratives” [Tarikh'pardazi va Iran'arayi: Baz'sazi-yi Huvviyat-i Irani dar Guzarish-i Tarikh] 583-628. “Rediscovering Munshi Newal Kishore (1836-1895),” South Asia Library Notes and Queries 29 (1993), 14-22, 44.“Imagining Western Women: Occidentalism and Euro-eroticism,” “Refashioning Iran: Language and Culture During the Constitutional Revolution,”Iranian Studies 23:1-4 (1992), 77-101.“A Woman Was, A Woman Was Not: Reading 1991), pp. xiv-xvi, 77-110. “The Persian Gaze and Women of the Occident,” “The Constitutionalist Imaginary in Iran and the Ideals of the French Revolutions” [Asar-i Agahi-i az Inqilab-i Faransah dar Shikl'giri-i Angarah-’i Mashrutiyat dar Iran], 411-439. “Reflections on the Satanic Verses,” Gray City Journal (March 3, 1989), 5. ♦ Editor Guest-editor with A. Reza Sheikholeslami, “The Emergence of Modernity and Nationalism in Iran,” a special issue of Guest-editor, “Divergent Modernities: Critical Reflections on Orientalism, Islamism and Nationalism,” a special issue of Co-editor with Abbas Amanat, a special issue on historiography, Iranian Studies 29: 1-2 (1996).Series editor, with Afsaneh Najmabadi (Barnard College), 1992). Mallah, edited by Afsaneh Najmabadi (New York: Scripting and Visaging Women Series, 1996). ♦ EDITED Historical Documents Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 4 “Archive [A selection of Letters, Articles and Proclamations on Women published in Ayadigan Daily Newspaper, 1978-1979: Part I],” 1979: Part II],” Nimeye Digar: Persian Language Feminist Journal 11 (Spring 1990), 96-157. ♦ Encyclopedia Entries Press, 2000), x:2, 144-146. “Mu‘ayyir al-Mamalik, Dust‘ali Khan (1236/1819 or 20-1290/1873),” in (forthcoming). “Mu‘ayyir al-Mamalik, Dust‘ali Khan (1293/1876-1345/1966),” in (forthcoming). ♦ Review Essays Huma Natiq and Muhammad Firuz. Mirza Aqa Khan Kirmani: Namah'ha-yi Tab‘id. Bonn: Hafiz Publications, 1986. In Iran Nameh: A Persian Journal of Iranian Studies 9 (Summer 1991), 478-488. ♦ Book Reviews 1999), 236-237. Janet Afary. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 31 (1999), 476-480.Mangol Bayat. Eastern Studies (February 1997).Mostafa Vaziri. Studies 26:2 (May 1994), 316-318.Manochehr Dorraj. In International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies 24:4 (November 1992), 735-736. Interviews and Commentaries “Aqa-yi Duktur Hishmat Moayyad” [To: Dr. Heshmat Moayyad, Concerning Jalaal Matini's Review of The Vices of Men (Ma‘ayib al-Rijal)] In Iran Shenasi: A Journal of Iranian Studies 5:3 (Fall 1993), 691-694. Bibliographies “Recent Publications in Persian,” SIS News: The Newsletter of the Society for Iranian Studies 25:3 (Spring 1995), 6-9. VII. PROFESSIONAL PAPERS AND INVITED LECTURES “Cultural Engineering in Contemporary Iran” the Eighth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference, the International Society for Iranian Studies, Santa Monica, California, 30 May 2010. “Revolutionary Subjectivity and Cultural Engineering in Contemporary Iran” Keynote Address, 25th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, the Council on Advanced Studies and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, Chicago, 15 May 2010. “Cultural Engineering in Contemporary Iran,” Iranian Studies Seminar, Columbia University, New York, 7 May 2010. "Visualizing Iran" Conference on Rethinking Iranian Nationalism, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, 2 April 2010. “Shifting Political Visions in Modern Iran: Islamism and Neo- secularism,” The Annual Noruz Lecture Series by a Distinguished Scholar of Iranian Studies, the Foundation for Iranian Studies and the George Washington University, Washington DC, 26 March 2010. “Intellectual U-turn: Spiritual Revolution to Post-Islamist Secularism,” Retreat of the Secular: Challenges of Religious Fundamentalism “The Soul of Soulless Conditions,” Keynote Address, Crossing Boarders: Unusual Negotiations Over the Secular, Public and the Private, Amherst College, 17-18 FEBRUARY 2009. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 5 “Exoticizing Europe: Persian Travel Accounts to the West,” The Trade and Traffic of Persia: A Mellon Conference, Claremont Colleges and Pomona College, Claremont, 19-20 September 2008. “Persian Cosmopolitanism and Europology,” Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts, Simon Fraser University, Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures, Vancouver, 21 June 2008 “Orientalism, Europism and the making of Iranian Islamism,” 27 April 2008. “All that is Holly is Profaned: Islamism and Postislamist Secularism,” Graduate-Faculty Colloquium Series, Department of History, University of Toronto, 6 February 6 2008. “Persian but Homeless Texts,” Symposium on Medieval Islamic Mysticism and History in Indo-Persian Culture, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, Seattle, 18 January 2008. “Iranian Aryanism, Islamism and Cosmopolitanism,” Re-Imagining Iran, Symposium,” Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture, University of California-Irvine, 19 May 2007. “Everyday Modern: The Body Social and Cultural Politics in Iran,” The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, 6 December 2007. “All that was Holy in Iran,” Conference on Iran and Iranian Studies in the 20th Century, Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies, University of Toronto, 20 October 2008. “New Currents in Iranian Studies,” Marking the 50th anniversary of the Middle East Centre, Middle East Centre Antonian Conference, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 1 July 2007. “Understanding Iran Today: Threats, Challenges, and Opportunities,” The Munk Centre for International Studies and the Canadian Forces College, 9 May 2007. “Patriotism and Matriotism: Two Modalities of Iranian Nationalism,” Department of History, Brock University, 14 February 2008. “Invented Modernity, Borrowed Civilization, and Spiritual Revolution,” Persian Section, Peking University, Beijing, 5 January 2008. “Europism, Orientalism and the making of Iranian Islamism,” Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures Department of History Simon Fraser University, 27 November 2007. “Iranian Constitutionalism and the Crafting of a Matriotic Political Discourse,” Conference on 100 Years Anniversary: Effects of the Constitutional Revolution on State and Society in Iran, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, 20 April 2007. “Matriotic Nationalism and Constitutionalism,” International Conference on Global Perspectives on Iranian Constitutional Movement: Appropriation, Adaptation, Indigenization, The University of Maryland's Center for Persian Studies, 22 September 2006. “The Centennial of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” Glimpses of the Splendor of Persian Culture Sixteenth Annual Conference, Association of Friends of Persian Culture, Chicago, Illinois, 1 September 2006. “Islamic Purity and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century Iran,” Sixth Biennial Conference of International Society for Iranian Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), 4 August 2006. “Constitutionalism, Matriotic Nationalism, and Modern Persian Political Discourse,” The Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1906-1911: Centenary Conference, Examination Schools, University of Oxford, 30 July 2006. “Matriotic Nationalism and the Making of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-1911,” Ninth Annual Hooshang Afrassiabi Distinguished Lecture in Persian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington, 7 February 2007. “Reconceptualizing Indo-Persian Modernity,” Center for India and South Asia, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 31 October 2006. “Care of Mother-Nation, Care of Self: Understanding the Iranian Constitutional Revolution 1905-1911,” The Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture and the Department of History, University of California Irvine, 30 October 2006. “Islamic Purity and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century Iran,” Institute of Islamic Studies, McGill University, 30 March 2006. “The Purity of the body and the Body Politic,” Conference on Private Lives and Public Spaces in Modern Iran, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 7-10 July 2005. “Rethinking Persianate Modernity,” Iran: Historical Sociology and Rethinking Modernity in Retrospectives, CERI: Centre d’Ëtudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, 19 April 2005. “Persian Occidentalism: The West in 19th Century Iranian Thought,” Harvard Academy Symposium on Anti-Western Critiques in Turkey, Iran, and Japan: Historical and Comparative Perspectives, Weatherhead Center For International Affairs, 30 April 2005 “Iranian History and Orientalist Historiography Early Twentieth Century, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian, 24-28 June 2004 “Religious Minorities in Iran,” Conference on Politics, Society, and Economy in a Changing Iran, The Hover Institution, Stanford University, May 20–21, 2004 Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 6 “Diasporic Communities and the De-territorialization of Iran?” Conference on Iran Facing the New Century, Wadham College & Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, 5-7 April 2004 “Critiquing Europism (Urupayigarayi) and Orientalism,” annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association of North America, 17 November 2001. “Ahmad Kasravi's Critique of Europism and Orientalism,” A Memorial Lecture in Honor of Dr. Ali Jazayery, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Culture, University of Texas at Austin, 13 November 2001. “Islam and Politicized Spirituality,” Student-Faculty Colloquium on Religion, Department of Religion, Illinois Wesleyan University, 25 October 2001. “Frontline Mysticism,” Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 4 October 2001. “The Fractured Memories of Iranian Modernity,” annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association of North America, 17 November 2000. “Islamism and Counter-Baha'ism,” The Society for Shaykhi, Babi and Bahai Studies panel discussion, annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, 16 November 2000. “Modernity, Schizophrenia, and Homeless Texts,” The Third Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies Bethesda, Maryland, May 25-28, 2000. “Modernity and Homeless Texts,” The 15th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference, The University of Chicago, 28-29 April 2000. “Oneself as Another: Iranian Subjectivity and the De/recognition of Baha’is” A special Session sponsored by the Society for Iranian Studies, annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., 21 November 1999. “The Clergy in the Constitutional and the Islamic Revolution,” A Roundtable on Iran: After Three Revolutions in One Century, Saint Mary’s College of California, Washington, D.C., 19 November 1999. “The July 1999 Iranian Student Movement as the Sign of the Time,” Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana, 30 September 1999. “Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia,” Postcolonial Intersections: Francophone, Irish & Middle Eastern Studies, Center for Continuing Education in cooperation with Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Keough Center for Irish Studies, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean Studies Program and the Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, 27 February 1998. “Payar-i Madaranah-‘i Vatan,” Nashr-i Tarikh-i Iran, Tehran, Iran, 6 July 1998. “Modernity, Heterotopia, and Homeless Texts,” Middle East Centre, St Anthony’s College, University of Oxford, 20 June 1998. “Going Public: Patriotic and Matriotic Homeland in Iranian Nationalist Discourses,” Project on Nationalism After Colonialism, Social Science Research Council, Berkeley, 24 November 1997. “Comparative Linguistics and Orientalism’s Genesis Amnesia,” Comparative Colonialisms Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 31 October 1997. “Tajddud va Bazsazi-i Huviyat-i Irani dar Guzarish-i Tarikh,” Nashr-i Tarikh-i Iran, Tehran, Iran, 3 August 1997. “Representing the Native Europeans: Indian Anthropology of Early Modern Europe,” Triangle South Asia Consortium Workshop on Migrations and Homelands, Real and Imagined: Constructing South Asian Muslim Identities,” North Carolina State University, 22-25 May 1997. “Indian Voy(ag)eurs of Early Modern Europe,” South Asia Seminar, The University of Chicago, 10 April 1997. “Choreographing Iran: Gender, Nation, and the Modernist Rhetoric of History,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies Lecture Series, The University of Chicago, 14 February 1997. “Iran: Towards the Normalization of Relations,” Annual Central Illinois World Affairs Conference, 1 March 1997. “Colonizing and Naturalizing Knowledge: History, Memory, and Cultural Authority,” Triangle South Asia Consortium Workshop on Transformations of the South Asian Islamicate Community in the 19th and 20th Centuries, University of North Carolina, 23-26 May 1996. “Persianate Scholars, ‘Pioneering’ Orientalists, and Scientific Pursuit,” Questions of Modernity Symposium, Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Anthropology, New York University, 19-20 April 1996. “Narrating the Nation,” annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D.C., November 1995. “Abu al-Bashar Kayumars: Iranian Identity and the Recounting of History,” annual conference of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA), Ohio State University, Columbus, April 1995. “Vaziri's Historical Imagination: A Critique of Mostafa Vaziri's annual conference of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis (CIRA), Ohio State University, Columbus, April 1995. “Europe's Indian and Iranian Voy(ag)eurs,” A Symposium on Shifting Boundaries of Gender Categories in South Asia and the Middle East, Middle East Studies Program, Women's Studies Program, and the Center for South Asian Studies, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, March 31-April 1, 1995. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 7 “Colonizing the Imagination: The Colonial Impulse and the West,” panel discussant, annual convention of the Midwest Modern Languages Association, Chicago, November 1994. “India's Polyglotism and the Munshi Newal Kishore Press,” Annual Conference on South Asia, Madison, November, 1994. “Eroticizing Europe,” Conference on Nineteenth Century Persian Travel Memoirs, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas, Austin, April 1994. “The Modernist Refashioning of Iran,” Middle East Seminar, The Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, 18 November 1993. “Indian Contributions to the Formation of Iranian Modernity,” Khuda Bakhsh Century Lectures, Khuda Bakhsh Oriental Public Library, Patna, Bihar, India, February 1993. “Persian as a Language of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern India,” Centre for Historical Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, April 1993. Keynote speaker, seventh annual conference of Middle East History and Theory Workshop and The Midwest Faculty Consortium for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago, April 1992. “The Exotic Europeans and the Reconstruction of Femininity in Iran,” annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association, Washington, D. C., November 1991. “Women of the West Imagined,” Round-Table on Identity Politics and Women, World Institute for Development Economics Research, The United Nations University, Helsinki, Finland, October 1990. “Imagining the West: The Nineteenth Century Iranian Perceptions of Europe,” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, May 1990. “A Woman Was, A Woman Was Not: Rereading of 'Vices of Unveiling' and 'The Necessity of Veiling',” annual conference of Iranian Women's Studies Foundation, Cambridge, May 1990. “The Constitutionalist Imaginary in Iran and the Ideals of the French Revolution,” annual meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1989. “Imagining the West: A Study of 19th Century Iranian Perceptions of the West,” annual meeting of Middle East Studies Association, Toronto, November 1989. “Constitutionalist Language and Narration,” Iranian History Seminar, Harvard University, Cambridge, February 1989. “Reflections on the Satanic Verses,” annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, August 1989. “Constitutionalist Language and Imaginary,” annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Los Angeles, November 1988. “Constitutional Discourse and the Construction of Social Identity in Iran and Turkey,” annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D. C., December 1987. “The People and the Popular in Iranian Political Discourse,” annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, Boston, 1986. “State Crises, Discursive Formations, and Populist Ruptures,” annual conference of the Center for Iranian Research and Analysis, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, April 1985. VIII. COMMUNITY EDUCATION and Provost, University of Toronto, 11 May 2005. ”Unique Opportunities for the Humanities at University of Toronto,” Humanities Retreat, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto, 14 January 2005. Rae Review Round Table, Sheridan College, 15 November 2004. Introduced Fouad Ajami at a Donner Canadian Foundation lecture on “Iraq and the Struggle for the Arab World,” CBC Broadcasting Centre, 28 September 2004. “A Meeting of Minds: Iran and Israel,” Religion, Pluralism and the Secular State,” Annual Summer Couchiching Conference, 5-8 August 2004. “September 11 and the Need for the Globalization of Civil Liberties,” Hate Crimes Symposium, School of Theater, Illinois State University, 20 September 2001. “Reflections on September 11: competing Islamist discourses and the challenge of democracy in the Middle East,” Department of History and the Center for International and Comparative Studies, Northwestern University, 9 November 2001. “The Clash of Civilizations? A Round Table on the Sources of 9/11/01,” Global Review and the Academic Senate, Illinois State University, 27 September 2001. “Competing Views of Islam,” a course offered at Academy of Seniors, Illinois State University, 6, 13, 20, 27 April 2000. 'Unity Against Intolerance,” Unity Rally, Hillel-Jewish Student Union and Muslim Student Association, 10 October 2001. “Islam and Violence,” College of Fine Arts Teach-In,” Illinois State University, 9 November 2001. “Islam and Human Rights,” Human Rights Symposia Series, Global Connections, Illinois State University, 22 February 2001. “The July Student Protests and the Future of Iran,” Global Review, Illinois State University, 23 September 1999. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 8 “Lost Libraries and Forgotten Texts: In Search of Persian Books in India,” Spring Program of the Friends of Milner Library, Milner Library, Illinois State University, 4 April 1996. “Global Education and Curriculum Revision at ISU,” Global Review Panel, International House, 14 September 1995. “Competing Views of Islam,” Fell Lectures, Campus Religious Center, 20 October 1995. “Islam,” Adult Forum, St. John's Lutheran Church, 6, 13,20, and 27 February 1995. “The Essentials of Islam,” New Covenant Community, Campus Religious Center, January 8, 1995. “What Can We Learn from Islam?” dialogue with Rev. Dick Watts, New Covenant Community, Campus Religious Center, January 8, 1995. “Understanding Islam,” Moderator, Evenings at Babbitt's Series, 26 September, 24 October, 5 December 1994. “Going Post-Marxist: Cultural Theory,” moderator, Evenings at Babbitt's Series, 8 June, 6 July, 3 August 1993. “Writing History Research Papers,” organizer and discussant, Department of History and History-Social Science Club, 13 April 1992. “Round Table on Women and the Writing of History Today,” organizer and discussant, Women Studies Program and the Department of History, 25 March 1992. “The Middle East in Crisis,” Alumni Program, College of Arts and Sciences, November 28, Elk Grove Village, 28 November 1991. “Understanding the Middle East,” Global Review, International House, Illinois State University, 15 November 1991. “Equality and Freedom in Modern Middle Eastern Political Discourse,” Friday Forum, University YMCA, University of Illinois, Champaign, 11 October 1991. “Iraq, the Kurds, and the U.S.,” Global Review, International House, 25 April 1991. “Raw: Exposing War!,” University Galleries, 19 March1991. “A Personal View of the Middle East,” St. John, 13 March 1991. “Multiculturalism and Curricular Change: 'Educational Democracy' or “the Tyranny of the Political Correct,'“ Global Review Panel Discussion, International House, 14 February 1991. “The Religion of Islam,” St. Robert Bellarmine Newman Center, 10 February 1991. “The Effects of War,” Global Review Panel Discussion, 7 February 1991. “The Persian Gulf War,” Normal Rotary Club, November 1990. “Afrocentrism at a Eurocentric University,” panel speaker, Multicultural Center, 14 November 1990. “Historical and Political Perspectives on the Persian Gulf Crisis,” Campus Religious Center, 11 September 1990. “Islamic Mysticism,” The First Presbyterian Church of Normal, 22 January 1990. IX. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE University of Toronto Mississauga/St. George Department UTM Member, Chair, Department of Historical Studies, 2004-07. Chair, Roman History Search Committee, Department of Historical Studies, 2004-05. Chair, Hebrew Bible Search Committee, Department of Historical Studies, 2004-05. Chair, Early Christianity Search Committee, Department of Historical Studies, 2004-05. Chair, East Asian Search Committee, Department of Historical Studies, 2004-05. Chair, Tenure Review Committee for Sarianna Metso, April/May 2005. Caretaker, Numata Program in Buddhist Studies, 2005-2006. St. George NMC Member, Modern Arabic Language Search Committee, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, 2005. Member, Promotions Committee, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, October 2004. HISTORY Member, program committee, Department of History, 2004-2005. Member, Tenure Review Committee for Elspeth Brown, March 2005. Member, Tenure Review Committee for Jan Noel, March/April 2005. NMC AND HISTORY: Coordinator, Middle East History and Theory Workshop, 2003-2005. Coordinator, Toronto Initiative for Iranian Studies, 2004-present. Member, Humanities Retreat Steering Committee, November-December 2004. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 9 Shirin Ebadi, Office of the President and Office of the Chancellor, Convocation Hall, 7 May 2004. Illinois State University UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES Director, Unit for Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, 2002-2003. International Studies Director Search Committee, 2001. Women's Studies Programming Committee, 2000-2001. Co-chair, Global Conncetions, Program, 2000-2001. College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award Committee, Chair, 1996 and 1998. South and South-West Asian Studies Team, Chair, 1993-1997. Ad Hoc Committee on Multiculturalism, 1993-94. Subcommittee on University Studies, 1993-94. Faculty Ethics & Grievance Committee, 1991-92. Humanities and Civilization Core Curriculum, 1991-92. Athletic Council, 1990-92. Illinois State University Gymnastics Club, Faculty Advisor, 1991-93. DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY COMMITTEES Graduate Committee, 2002-2003. Global History Search Committee, Chair, 2001. Department Faculty Status Committee, Fall 1999-2000. Curriculum Committee, 1994-1997, Chair, 1998-1999; 1999-2003. Twentieth Century United States Search Committee, 1999-2003. Chair Evaluation Committee, 1998. Civil War Search Committee, 1998-1999. Managing Editor, Awards Committee, 1989-1996. UTA Selection Committee, 1994-95. History Chair Search Committee, 1993-94. Computer Committee, 1989-92. Co-editor of History Department Newsletter, 1990-92. History-Social Science Club, Faculty Advisor, 1990-92. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED “Border Subjects IV: Global (Dis)Connections Conference, April 26-27, 2001. “Time and Narrative: the 10th Biannual Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination Conference,” 24 April 1999. “The 11th Biannual Rhetoric and Historical Imagination Conference,” 4 December 1999. “Rethinking Islam and the Middle East,” Department of History, Illinois State University, 10 December 1998. “Border Subjects: Transgressions of Culture, Knowledge & Identity” jointly organized by Departments of Art, English, and History, 17-19 October 1996. “Contending Rhetorics: Culture and Identity in Formation,” the Seventh Annual Conference on Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination, Department of History, Department of English, and Department of Sociology, Office of Minority Research Opportunities, in cooperation with College of Arts and Sciences, and International House, 27 April 1996. “Formation of Social and Historical Identities,” the Sixth Annual Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination Conference, Department of History and Department of Sociology in cooperation with College of Arts and Sciences, and International House, Walker Hall, 4 December 1995. “Nations and Narrations: Telling the Truth About History?” the Fiftth Annual Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination Conference, Department of History in cooperation with Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Graduate School, and Multicultural Center, 29 April 1995. “Feminist and Orientalist Historiography,” the Fourth Annual conference on Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination, Department of History in cooperation with Undergraduate Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, and Multicultural Center, 10 December 1994. “Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination,” the Third Annual Conference on Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination, jointly sponsored by the Department of History, Department of English, and Multicultural Center, 30 April 1994. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi 10 “Multicultural Perspective and Interdisciplinary Studies,” the Second annual symposium of Rhetoric and the Historical Imagination, jointly sponsored by Department of English, Department of History, and Multicultural Center, 11 April 1992. “History and Theory Workshop,” jointly sponsored by the Department of History and the English Department, 26 April 1991. The University of Chicago Responsible for publicity and coordination of Center activities; assistant editor of the center's newsletter, 1987-1989. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED “Parvin E‘tisami: A Twentieth Century Iranian Woman Poet,” March 1989. “Power, Language and Memory,” April, 1988; “History as Literature, and Literature as History,” April 1987. “State, Society, and Ideology: New Issues in the Historiography of the Middle East,” April 1986. T Responsible for Persian collection development, 1981-89. C Workshop, Coordinator. Established and organized an interdisciplinary student/faculty workshop for discussion and presentation of theoretically informed works on Middle Eastern History, 1985-88. Iranian Studies: The Journal of the Society for Iranian Studies, Editorial Board, 1994-1998. 2002. manuscripts, stone plates, books, photographs,” I. R. Iran Culture House, New Delhi, India, May 1993. Responsible for coordination of the Sixth Annual Conference held at the University of Chicago, April 1988. X. MANUSCRIPT EVALUATOR American Historical Review, Princeton University Press, New York University Press, Columbia University Press, Iranian Studies, Social Politics, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, and Comparative Studies of the Middle East, Africa and the Middle East. XI. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP American Historical Association, Middle Eastern Studies Association, Society for Iranian Studies. XII. LANGUAGES Persian (native fluency), Arabic (reading), German (reading), and Urdu (reading).