Academic Profile
Mary Yoshinari is an independent researcher and former Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Fellow. She has conducted research at state archives in Tehran and Moscow, among other locations. Her recent publications include Labour History and the Economy in Iran: Workers, Entrepreneurs and the State, co-edited with Serhan Afacan (I.B. Tauris, 2025) and “Governing by Partnership: The Role of Abdolhossein Nikpour and the Chambers of Commerce in Iran’s National Economy,” co-authored with Ali A. Saeidi, Middle Eastern Studies (2023). Her forthcoming book, Iran’s Modern Economic History, 1921-1946, reevaluates the development of the Iranian economy in national and global contexts.
Scholarly Interests
Economic and Labour History of Modern Iran, Social History of the Middle East, History of Soviet Relations with Iran and Central Asia, Global and International Relations History, Turkish and Ottoman History, Central Asian History, Theories of Modernity