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Academic Profile

Tenured Full Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies:
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/gender-womens-studies/nayereh-tohidi
Director of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, CSUN:
http://www.csun.edu/humanities/middle-eastern-and-islamic-studies/Nayereh-Tohidi
Coordinator of the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran, Program of Iranian Studies & Center for Near Eastern Studies at UCLA: http://web.international.ucla.edu/cnes/bilingual-lecture-series/

Ph.D., Educational Psychology (Socio-Cultural Perspectives), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1983
MA, Educational Psychology (Human Development), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1979
BS,Psychology(Major),Sociology(Minor),UniversityofTehran,Iran,1975, (Graduation with Honors)
TeacherTrainingCredential,CaliforniaStateUniversity,Northridge,1984-86

Scholarly Interests

Gender, Islam, and Feminism; Transnational Feminism and Globalization; Gender aspects of Development Studies and Globalization; Ethnicity and Ethno-Religious Movements; Education and Social Change, Civil Society Building, Democracy and Human Rights in the Persianate and Turkic Societies of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia with a focus on Iran and Azerbaijan Republic

Current Position

Professor, California State University