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Iranian-American scholar

Nayereh Esfahlani Tohidi (Persian: نیره توحیدی; born )^[2][1] is an Iranian-born American professor, researcher, and academic administrator.

Tohidi is a professor emerita and former chair of gender and women’s studies, and the founding director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic studies (from to ) at California State University, Northridge.^[3]

She is also a research associate at the Center for Near Eastern Studies of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she had coordinated the Bilingual Lecture Series on Iran since ^[4] She specializes in the fields of gender, Islam, feminism, modernity, and democracy; ethnicity and ethno-religious movements; and human and women's rights in the Persianate and Turkic Societies of the Middle East, the Caucasus and Central Asia.^{[5][unreliable source?]}

Career

Her teaching and research areas include sociology of gender, religion (I