Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi
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محمد توكلي طرقي
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| Born | 1957 (age 66–67) |
| Other names | Muḥammad Tavakkulī Ṭarqī, Mohamad Tavakoli |
| Alma mater | University of Iowa, University of Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Scholar, editor, author, professor, program director |
| Known for | Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Orientalism, Gender Studies |
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi (Persian: محمد توكلي طرقي; born 1957)[1] is an Iranian-born Canadian scholar, editor, author, professor, and program director. He is a professor of History and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations,[2] and he serves as the Director of Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga. Tavakoli-Targhi's areas of research include Iranian Studies, Middle Eastern history, Gender Studies, modernity, nationalism, Orientalism, and occidentalism.[3]
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi was born in 1957 in Tehran, Iran.[1][3] He attended the University of Iowa, and received a BA degree (1980) in political science and an MA degree (1981) in history; and has a PhD (1988) in history from the University of Chicago.[4]
He previously taught history courses at the Illinois State University from 1989 to 2003.[5] He moved to the University of Toronto in 2004, where he is the first director of the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Institute of Iranian Studies.[6] Starting in 2022, a multi-year research partnership was formed between the Encyclopædia Iranica and the University of Toronto, under Tavakoli-Targhi's leadership.[6]
Tavakoli-Targhi has served as an editor including at the academic journal, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East from 2001 until 2012;[3][7] and at Iran Nameh from 2011 until 2015.[7] He was previously served as the president of the International Society for Iranian Studies in 2009 to 2010.[8]
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