Touraj Atabaki 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

International Institute of Social History

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. Dr Atabaki is also the President of the European Society for Central Asian Studies

Central Asian studies

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 (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

Iranian Studies

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, the visiting senior research fellow of the Middle East Centre (St. Antony's College, University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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), and the visiting professor at the Academy of Sciences of Georgia

Georgia (country)

Georgia is a sovereign state in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the southwest by Turkey, to the south by Armenia, and to the southeast by Azerbaijan. The capital of...

, Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan

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, Tajikistan

Tajikistan

Tajikistan , officially the Republic of Tajikistan , is a mountainous landlocked country in Central Asia. Afghanistan borders it to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east....

, Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

, Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan

Kyrgyzstan , officially the Kyrgyz Republic is one of the world's six independent Turkic states . Located in Central Asia, landlocked and mountainous, Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the southwest and China to the east...

, Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan , officially the Republic of Uzbekistan is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia and one of the six independent Turkic states. It shares borders with Kazakhstan to the west and to the north, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to the east, and Afghanistan and Turkmenistan to the south....

, Turkmenistan

Turkmenistan

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, and Moscow

Moscow

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. He is also a member of several editorial boards, including the Journal of Azerbaijani Studies, International Institute for Asian Studies

International Institute for Asian Studies

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 (IIAS) Newsletter, the Central Asian Survey

Central Asian Survey

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, and The Review of International Affairs board. He is also an expert on Iranian Azeris.

Life

Professor Touraj Atabaki studied theoretical physics

Theoretical physics

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 (BSc, MSc) and history

History

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 at the National University of Iran and University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

. He also Worked at Utrecht University

Utrecht University

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, where he acquired his MA and PhD.

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