Touraj Atabaki

Touraj Atabaki
Born	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) is the Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute of Social History. 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 did his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of Prof Ervand Abrahamian (Baruch College) on the ethnicity and regional autonomy in the twentieth century Iran; it was published in 1993 and reprinted in 2000.

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. At the presetn 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.

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website:http://www.atabaki.nl