Touraj Atabaki is the Head of the Department of the Middle East and Central Asia at the International Institute of Social History. He also holds the chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the University of Leiden.
I Studied theoretical physics (BSc, MSc) and history at the National University of Iran and University of London. I Worked at Utrecht University, where I acquired my MA and PhD. I held the endowed chair of Social History of the Middle East and Central Asia at the Department of History of the University of Amsterdam.
I have served on the editorial board of Iranian Studies, the Journal of Central Asian Survey and the International Journal of Azerbaijani Studies. My 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.
