Touraj Atabaki
| Touraj Atabaki | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
23 February 1950 Tehran, Iran |
| Nationality | Iranian & Dutch |
| Occupation | Senior Research Fellow, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Professor of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia, Leiden University. |
| Website | www.atabaki.nl |
Touraj Atabaki (Persian: تورج اتابکی) (born 1950) is the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also holds the chair of the Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the School of the Middle East Studies of the Leiden University.
Studied first theoretical physics and then history, he finished his doctoral dissertation in 1991 at Utrecht University under the supervision of Prof Ervand Abrahamian (Baruch College) on the ethnicity and regional autonomy in the twentieth century Iran; titled Ethnicity and autonomy in Iranian Azarbayjan : the autonomous government of Azarbayjan 1946, it was published in 1993 and reprinted in 2000.[1]
At the present he is coordinating a research project on Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry 1908-2008. He is also a participant in the international project, based at the International Institute of Social History, of the Global Collaboratory on the History of Labour Relations 1500-2000.
Touraj Atabaki served as president of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), as a member of the academic board of the International Institute of Asian Studies (IIAS), as a member of the Board of Consulting Editors of the International Labour and Working-Class History, the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Iranian Studies, the Editorial Board of the Journal of Central Asian Survey and the Editorial Board of the Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences (Former Journal of Azerbaijani Studies), published by Khazar University Press. As of 2014 he is the president-elect of the International Society of Iranian Studies.
His fields of research encompass Social History of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia, Modernity, Migration, Nationalism, Labour and Subaltern Studies and post-Colonial Historiography.
References
- ↑ Touraj Atabaki at Leiden University "Professors since 1575" website.
- Atabaki, Touraj 1950- at encyclopedia.com