Former Director, Women
and Gender Studies Institute, University
of Toronto (2003-2008)
http://www.utoronto.ca/wgsi/
Past-President, Canadian Association
for the Study of Adult Education
http://www.oise.utoronto.ca/CASAE/
AWARDS
2008 Distinguished Contribution to Graduate Teaching Award, OISE/University of Toronto
Dean's Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Science, University of Toronto
Noted Scholar, University of British
Columbia
EFF Distinguished Visitor, University
of Alberta, Edmonton
First prize winner in the Women’s
WORLD writing contest, "Women’s
Voices in War Zones."
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab’s specialty
includes: educational policy studies;
comparative and international adult
education policy; adult education,
globalization and learning; critical
and feminist pedagogy. Her areas
of research and teaching are: women,
state, globalization and citizenship;
women, war, militarization, violence
and learning; and comparative analysis
of lifelong learning theory and
practice; and feminism, colonialism
and imperialism. She has conducted
extensive research on immigrant
women’s access to employment
and training in Canada and the impact
of war and violence on women’s
learning in the diaspora, in particular,
on women political prisoners of
the Middle East.
Women, War, Diaspora, and Learning:
Research Resources: www.utoronto.ca/wwdl
Memories, Memoirs, and the Arts:
Women Political Prisoners of Iran
www.utoronto.ca/prisonmemoirs
COURSES
AEC 1100 Outline of Adult Education
AEC1131H Lifelong Learning and Social
Change
AEC1156H Power and Difference in
the Workplace
AEC1146H Women, War, and Learning
AEC3113H Adult Education Approaches
to Theories of State, Equity, and
Democracy
AEC3140H Political Economy of Adult
Education in Global Perspectives
AEC3114H Comparative Studies in
Adult Education
FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Children of War: Citizenship Education
and the Practice of Democratic Principles,
SSHRC, Standard Research Grant.
Women Political Prisoners of Iran:
Memoirs, Memories and Art, SSHRC-SIG,
Women and Gender Studies Institute.
Weaving a knowledge web: Improving
literacy learning outcomes by collaboratively
addressing the impact of violence
on learning, Canadian Council of
Learning.
“Education Research for Conflict
Prevention, Human Security and Peace-building:
Understanding and Responding to
Gendered Dimensions,” Connaught
International Symposia/colloquia,
University of Toronto.
“Role of women’s organizations
in post-war reconstruction: Diaspora-homeland
relations in the Kurdish “Safe
Haven,” 1991-2003,”
SSHRC, Standard Research Grant.
“War, Diaspora and Learning:
Kurdish Women in Canada, Britain,
and Sweden,” SSHRC Standard
Grant.
Lana Stermac (Applicant) and Shahrzad
Mojab (Co-applicant) “Academic
achievement and access in higher
education among recent immigrant
and refugee youth,” CESC-SSHRC
Educational Research Initiative,
$79,800.000.
“Transnational Organizations
and Post-war Reconstruction: Mapping
Women’s Learning in Afghanistan
and Kurdistan,” SSHRC Institutional
Grant.
“The Role of Lifelong Learning
Policy in the New Economy: Toward
a Comparative International Policy
Framework. SSHRC Institutional Grant.
“Collaborative Learning for
Change,” New Approaches to
Lifelong Learning (NALL).
PUBLICATIONS
Books
2004
Co-editor with Nahla Abdo Violence
in the Name of Honour: Theoretical
and Political Challenges. Istanbul:
Bilgi University Press.
2003
Co-editor with Himani Bannerji War
and Militarization, special issue
of Resources for Feminist Research,
30 (3/4).
2001
Editor, Women of a Non-State Nation:
The Kurds. Costa Mesa, California:
MAZAD Publishers, 263 pages.
Co-editor, Of Property and Propriety:
The Role of Gender and Class in
Imperialism and Nationalism. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 244
pages.
2000
Editor with Afsaneh Hojabri, Women
of Iran: A Subject bibliography.
Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women’s
Studies Foundation, 106 pages.
Editor with Afsaneh Hojabri, Two
Decades of Iranian Women’s
Studies in Exiles: A Subject Bibliography
[in Farsi]. Cambridge, MA: Iranian
Women’s Studies Foundation,
154 pages.
Edited Volumes
2008
International Journal of Lifelong Education, guest editor, special issue on Women , War and Learning.
2007
Mojab, S. And Nadeen El-Kassem, "Cultural Relativism: Theoretical, Political and Ideological Debates," The Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Ottawa, 30 pages.
2005
Mojab, S. and H. Nosheen Proceedings of the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, May, 312 pages.
2003
Bannerji, H. and S. Mojab Resources for Feminist Research, 30 (3/4), guest editor, special issue on War and Militarization.
2002
Mojab, S. and W. McQueen (eds.) Adult Education and the Contested Terrain of Public Policy. Toronto: The Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education, 436 Pages.
Mojab, S. and N. Binder Wall and S. McDonald, Collaborative Learning for Change. OISE/University of Toronto, Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology, April, 28 pages.
Documentary Films
Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance
Based on my research on women in the post-war Nepal, their role in the peace process, as well as the role of women's NGOS in building sustainable peace, I have produced a documentary film called, Samjana: Memoirs and Resistance. This documentary is filmed and directed by Shahrzad Arshadi, a Canadian film maker and photographer based in Montreal. The first screening of this documentary for audience review was at OISE/UT on June 23. More than hundred people attend the session and the film was well received. In May 29, 2008 it will be shown at the Centre Culturel Simón Bolívar in Montreal and it is sponsored by the Consulat Général de la République Bolivarienne du Venezuela á Montréal.
Dancing for Change: Kurdish Women of Iran
This documentary is based on my decades of research and work with Kurdish women. It captures their yearning for secularism and socialism; their dreams and desires for a just world. In a society where state, community, and family violence against women is pervasive, these courageous women cross all boundaries and are engaged in political and military training, life-writing and life-reading activities, broadcasting, and surely dancing! This documentary is filmed and directed by Shahrzad Arshadi, a Canadian film maker and photographer based in Montreal. The documentary will be released in 2008.
Refereed Articles
2008
"Women, war, and learning," editorial with Stephan Dobson, International Journal of lifelong Education, 27 (2): 119-127.
2007
"Dispersed Nationalism: War, Diaspora and Kurdish Women's Organizing," with Rachel Gorman in "Transnational theory, national politics and gender in the contemporary Middle East/North Africa," Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 3 (1), Winter: 58-85.
2006
“Women in the war zone of
the Middle East: Fragmented solidarities
and scattered resistances,”
Feminist Approaches in Culture and
Politics, Issue 1, October [in Turkish].
“In the quagmires of ethnicity:
A Marxist critique of liberal ‘exit
strategies’”, Journal
of Ethnicities, 6 (3): 341-361.
2005
“Middle East and Adult Education,”
in Leona M. English (ed.), International
Encyclopedia of Adult Education.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.
400-404.
“Kurdish women,” in
Suad Joseph (ed.), Encyclopedia
of Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume
II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill:
Leiden-Boston, pp. 358-366.
“Honor: Iran and Afghanistan,”in
Suad Joseph (ed), Encyclopedia of
Women and Islamic Cultures. Volume
II, Family, Law and Politics. Brill:
Leiden-Boston, pp. 215-216.
2004
“Layla Zana,”in Philip
Mattar (ed) Encyclopedia of the
Modern Middle East and North Africa,
Vol. 4, 2nd Edition. Detroit, Michigan:
Mcmillan Reference USA
“Introduction,” in
Bannerji and Mojab (eds.) War and
Militarization, special issue of
Resources for Feminist Research,
30 (3/4):7-12.
“State-university power struggle
at times of revolution and war in
Iran,” International Higher
Education, No. 36, Summer: 11-13.
“Kurdish diaspora,”
with Amir Hassanpour, in Ian Skoggard
(ed.) Encyclopedia of Diasporas.
Diasporas. Human Relations Area
Files, Inc: New Haven, Connecticut:
214-224.
2003
“Women and consciousness in
the learning organization: Emancipation
or exploitation?” with Rachel
Gorman, Adult Education Quarterly:
A Journal of Research and Theory,
53 (4): 228-241.
“‘Thinking the practice:’
Academic adult educators’
reflections on mediating a summer
institute as a multicultural learning
journey for graduate students,”
with André Grace and Patricia
Gouthro, Studies in Continuing Education,
Vol. 25, No. 1, May: 51-73.
“Kurdish women in the zone
of genocide and gendercide,”
Al-Raida Magazine, Institute for
Women’s Studies in the Arab
World, Lebanese American University,
Vol. XXI, No. 103: 20-25.
2002
“The politics and culture
of “honour killing:”
The murder of Fadime Ôahindal,”
with Amir Hassanpour, Pakistan Journal
of Women’s Studies: Alam-e-Niswan,
June, (9) 1:57-77. Translated in
Kurdish in ....., 2003, Vol. 3,
No. 26, pp. 20-23.
“‘Honor Killing’:
Culture, politics and theory.”
Middle East Women’s Studies
Review, Spring/Summer 17 (1&2):
1-7.
“Thoughts on the struggle
against “honour killing,”
with Amir Hassanpour, The International
Journal of Kurdish Studies, (16)
1 & 2: 83-97. Translated in
Farsi by Farideh Fatah Ghazi in
Rawangeh, (4) 18.
“Fundamentalist and capitalist
wars on women,” Fireweed,
Special issue on Women, Race, War
and Resistance, No. 7, Part 1: 12-19.
2001
“The politics of ‘cyberfeminism’
in the Middle East: The Case of
Kurdish Women,” Journal of
Race, Gender, and Class, 8 (3):
1-20.
2000
“Adult education in the Middle
East: Etatism, patriarchy and civil
society,” Convergence, 33
(3): 9-24.
“The feminist project in
cyberspace and civil society,”
Convergence, 33 (1-2):106-119.
“Doing fieldwork on women
in theocratic Islamic states,”
Resources for Feminist Research,
Spring/Summer, 28 (1-2): 81-98.
“Educational voyaging in
a globalizing planet: The conference
of the rich, the poor, and the oppressed,”
Atlantis: A Women’s Studies
Journal. 24 (2): 123-134.
“Vengeance and violence:
Kurdish women recount the war,”
Canadian Woman Studies Journal.
19 (4), Winter: 89-94. Also is translated
into German, “Rache und Gewalt:
Kurdische Frauen erinnern den Krieg,”
Kurdische Studien 1 (2001) 1: 53-63.
Book Chapters
2008
"War, Diaspora, Learning and Women's Standpoint,"with Rachel Gorman in Maroussia Hajdukowski-Ahmed and Nazilla Khanlou (eds.) Not Born A Refugee Woman: Contesting Identities: Rethinking Practices. Oxford: Oxford University Press,
"Women, violence and informal learning," with Susan McDonald in Kathryn Church, Nina Bascia, and Eric Shragge (eds.) Learning Through Community: Exploring Participatory Practices. Springer Publishers, 37-53.
2007
"Years of solitude, years of defiance: Women political prisoners in Iran," in Agah, A., Sousan Mehr and Shadi Parsi, We Lived to Tell: Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 7-18.
Cultural relativism: Theoretical, political and ideological debates," with Nadeen El-Kassem in Canadian Council of Muslim Women, Canadian Muslim Women at the Crossroads: From integration to Segregation: 3-44.
2006
“Gender, nation and diaspora:
Kurdish women in feminist transnational
struggles,” in Haideh Moghissi
(ed.) Muslim Diaspora: Gender, Culture
and Identity. London: Routledge:
116-132.
“Adult education without
borders” in Fenwick, Tara,
Tom Nesbit and Bruce Spencer (eds.)
Contexts of Adult Education: Canadian
Perspectives. Toronto: Thompson
Educational Publishing: 347-356.
“Gender, political Islam
and imperialism,” in Colin
Moores (ed.) The New Imperialists:
Ideologies of Empire. Oxford: Oneworld
Publications:61-85.
2005
“Race and class,” In
Tom Nesbit (ed.), Class Concerns:
Adult Education & Social Class.
New Directions in Adult and Continuing
Education, no. 106. San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass: 73-82.
2004
The Particularity of ‘Honour’
and the Universality of ‘Killing’:
From Early Warning Signs to Feminist
Pedagogy,” in Mojab and Abdo
(eds.) Violence in the Name of Honour:
Theoretical and Political Challenges.
Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.
“From the ‘Wall of
Shame’ to September 11: Wither
Adult Education?” in Peter
Kell, Michael Singh, and Sue Shore
(eds.). Adult Education at 21st
Century. New York: Peter Lang, pp.
3-19.
“No “Safe Haven”
for women: Violence against women
in Iraqi Kurdistan,” in W.
Giles and J. Hyndman (eds.) Sites
of Violence: Gender and Identity
in Conflict Zones. Berkeley: University
of California Press, pp. 108-133.
2003
“Education of a non-state
nation: Reconstructing a university
in the war zone of Iraqi Kurdistan,”
with Budd Hall in Wayne Nelles (ed.)
Comparative Education, Terrorism
and Human Security. New York, Palgrave
McMillan, pp. 159-173.
2002
“Equity coordinator: The change
agent in an unyielding structure
of power,” in Elena Hannah,
Linda Paul, and Swani Vethamany-Globus
(eds) Women in the Canadian Academic
Tundra: Challenging the Chill, McGill-Queen's
University Press, Montreal, pp.
162-167.
2001
‘Introduction,’ with
Himani Bannerji and Judith Whitehead.
In Bannerji, H., S. Mojab and J.
Whitehead (eds.) Of Property and
Propriety: The Role of Gender and
Class in Imperialism and Nationalism.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
pp. 1-33
“Conflicting Loyalties: Nationalism
and gender relations in Kurdistan,”
In Bannerji, H., S. Mojab and J.
Whitehead (eds.) Of Property and
Propriety: The Role of Gender and
Class in Imperialism and Nationalism.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
pp. 116-152.
‘Introduction: The solitude
of the stateless: Kurdish women
at the margins of feminist knowledge.’
In Mojab, S. (ed.) Women of a Non-State
Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa, California:
MAZAD Publishers, pp. 1-21.
‘Women and nationalism in
Kurdish Republic of 1946.’
In Mojab, S. (ed.) Women of a Non-State
Nation: The Kurds. Costa Mesa, California:
MAZAD Publishers, pp. 71-91.
2000
“The power of economic globalization:
Deskilling immigrant women through
training,” Cervero, Ron M.
and Arthur L. Wilson (eds.) Power
in Practice: Adult Education and
Struggle for Knowledge and Power
in Society. New York: Jossey-Bass,
pp. 23-41.
“Iranian women’s studies:
Further steps toward internationalization
of feminist inquiry,” in S.
Mojab and A. Hojabri (eds.) Women
of Iran: A Subject bibliography,
Cambridge, MA: Iranian Women’s
Studies Foundation, pp. 1-12.
“Frauen und nationalismus
in der Kurdischen Republik von 1946,”
[Feminism and nationalism in the
Kurdish Republic of 1946] in Savelsberg,
Eva, Siamend Hajo, and Carsten Borck
(eds.) Kurdische Frauen und das
Bild der Kurdischen Frau. Münster:
LIT, pp. 129-155.
“Civilizing the State: the
University in the Middle East,”
in Inayatullah, S. and Gidley, J.
(eds.) The University in Transformation:
Global Perspectives on the Futures
of The University, Greenwood, Westport,
pp. 137-148. |
