2011 Trudeau Fellow

Profile

Dr. Haideh Moghissi is a Professor of sociology and women's studies at York University in Toronto. She was a founder of the Iranian National Union of Women and member of its first executive and editorial boards, before leaving Iran in 1984.
 
Dr. Moghissi has served as Associate Dean External Relations, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, Coordinator, Certificate for Anti-Racist Research and Practice (CARRP), Chair of the Executive Committee of Centre for Feminist Research and as a member of the executive committee of the Centre for Refugee Studies, at York University. She has served as a commentator on Iran and women in the Middle East on CBC, TVO, the BBC World Service, Radio France, and Voice of America, and on the Editorial and Advisory Boards of The Journal of Comparative Public Policy, the Rutledge Women and Politics Series, Resources for Feminist Research and Feminist Forum.

Her publications in English includes seven monographs and edited volumes and 35 articles in books  and journals such as Feminist Theory, Signs, Monthly Review, Humanity and Sociology, Third World Quarterly, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Socialist Register, Global Dialogue, Comparative Family Studies and International Review of Comparative Public Policy.

Her Feminism and Islamic Fundamentalism: The Limits of Postmodern Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2000 and Zed Press, 1999), winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Book Award, has been translated to Korean and Indonesian.

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