Shahrzad Mojab
Mojab, Shahrzad
Shahrzad Mojab, scholar, teacher, and activist, is internationally known for her work on the impact of war, displacement, and violence on women's work, learning and education. She is professor of Adult Education and Community Development and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto. Shahrzad is the recipient of numerous awards including 2020 Canadian Association of Studies in Adult Education Lifetime Achievement Award; the Royal Society of Canada Award in Gender Studies in 2010; and the 2008 Distinguished Contribution to Graduate Teaching Award, OISE/University of Toronto. Shahrzad’s research and teaching transform the theorization of Marxism and feminism; intersectionality; capitalist imperialist patriarchy; and the revolts of women, students and nationalities in the Middle East and North Africa. She has published extensively on these topics, and they have mostly been translated into Arabic, Persian, Kurdish, French, Swedish, and German. Her recent books include: Marxism and Migration (co-edited with Genevie Ritchie and Sara Carpenter, 2022); Women of Kurdistan: A Historical and Bibliographical Study (co-authored with Amir Hassanpour, 2021); Revolutionary Learning: Marxism, Feminism and Knowledge (co-authored with Sara Carpenter, 2017); Marxism and Feminism (editor, 2015); Educating from Marx: Race, Gender and Learning (co-edited with Sara Carpenter, 2012); and Women of a Non-State Nation: The Kurds (editor, 2001). She is the editor of the book series with Peter Lang on Kurdish People, History and Politics.