Touraj Atabaki

Touraj Atabaki (Persian: تورج اتابکی) is a professor of the "Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia" at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam and a senior research fellow at the International Institute of Social History. Dr Atabaki is also the President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies (ESCAS), a member of the Conference of the Presidents of the European Associations for Asia Studies, a member of the Council of the Society for Iranian Studies, the visiting senior research fellow of the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's College, University of Oxford), and the visiting professor at the Academy of Sciences of Georgia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, and Moscow. He is also a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) Newsletter, the Central Asian Survey, and The Review of International Affairs board.^[1] He is also an expert on Iranian Azeris.^[2]

Life

Professor Touraj Atabaki studied theoretical physics (BSc, MSc) and history at the National University of Iran and University of London. He also Worked at Utrecht University, where he acquired his MA and PhD.^[1]

Publications

Books

• Incommodious Hosts, Invidious Guests: Everyday life of Iranian Migrant Workers in the Stalinist Soviet Union (Forthcoming).
• The Young Moments in the History of the South (Forthcoming).
• Historiography and Political Culture in Twentieth-Century Iran, Editor (London, I.B.Tauris, publication scheduled for 2007).
• The State and the Subaltern: Society and Politics in Turkey and Iran, Editor (London, I.B. Tauris, publication scheduled for April 2007).
• Iran and the First World War: A Battleground of the Great Powers, Editor (London: I.B.Tauris, 2006).
• Central Asia and the Caucasus: Transnationalism and Diaspora, co-Editor [Sanjyot Mehendale] (London: Routledge, 2005).
• Men of Order: Authoritarian Modernisation Under Atatürk and Reza Shah, co-Editor [Erik Jan Zürcher] (London: I.B Tauris, 2004).
• Beyond Essentialism: Who writes whose Past in the Middle East and central Asia? (Amsterdam: Aksant, 2003).
• Post-Soviet Central Asia, co-Editor [John O’Kane] (London: I.B.Tauris, 1998).
• Azarbayjan dar Iran-e Mo‘aser, [Azerbaijan in Contemporary Iran] (Tehran: Tus, 1997).
• Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and the Struggle for Power in Iran, [Revised Edition of Azerbaijan, Ethnicity and Autonomy in the Twentieth-Century Iran] (London: I.B.Tauris, 2000).
• Centraal Azië, co-Author [Joris Versteeg] (Amsterdam: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen-Novib-NCOS, 1994).
• Azerbaijan: Ethnicity and Autonomy in the Twentieth-Century Iran (London, IB Tauris, 1993).
• Ayat-e ‘Eshq, Tajiki Contemporary Poetry, [Selected and edited work of the Tajik poet Golrukhksar] (Frankfurt: Horizonte Verlag, 1992).
• Kurdistan in Search of Ethnic Identity, Co-Editor [Margreet Dorlijn] (Utrecht: Houtsma Foundation Publication, 1990).
• Etymologisch Woordenboek, Van Veen, P.A.F.; Van der Sijs, N., Editor (Amsterdam: Van Dale, 1989). [Part on Avestan and Persian].

Articles, Papers, etc

These can be found at the following URLs:

• http://www.atabaki.net/Articles.htm
• http://www.atabaki.net/BookReviews.htm

External links

• http://www.atabaki.net/
• http://www.iisg.nl/staff/tat.php
• http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/asia/experts/ta.htm

References