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Nayereh Tohidi is an Associate
Professor of Women’s Studies at California State University, Northridge.
She is also a Research Associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies of
UCLA. She earned her Ph.D. and MA degrees from the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and holds a BS degree (with Honor) in Sociology and
Psychology from Tehran University.
Dr. Tohidi is the recipient of
several grants and research awards including a year of Fulbright
lectureship and research at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Republic
of Azerbaijan (1991-92); post-doctoral fellowships at Harvard University;
the Hoover Institute of Stanford University; and the Kennan Institute of
the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Before joining CSUN,
Tohidi taught at a number of universities, including Iowa, Minnesota,
Harvard, USC and UCLA. She has written extensively on gender and social
change, women and modernization, democracy and Islamism in the Middle East
and Central Eurasia, especially Iran and post-Soviet Azerbaijan. She has
been a consultant for the United Nations (UNDP, UNICEF, ILO, and WIDER) on
projects concerning gender and development, women and civil society
building. She represented women NGOs at both the third and fourth World
Conferences on Women in Nairobi (1985) and in Beijing (1995), presenting
on Iranian women's issues and concerns of women in transitional economies
of post-Soviet Caucasus and Central Asia.
Professor Tohidi is
frequently consulted by the media and invited to speak on women and gender
issues, democracy and human rights in Islamic societies at national and
international conferences and community events. In 2001, she ran a weekly
radio program on “Women and Society in Iran” broadcast to Iran, Central
Asia and Europe through Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Some of her
writings and interviews have been translated or reprinted in many other
languages and countries, including Iran, Russia, France, Austria,
Azerbaijan, Britain, India, Japan, the Philippines, and
Brazil.
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