Shahrzad Mojab
Shahrzad Mojab is an academic activist and professor, teaching at the Department of Leadership, Higher and Adult Education and Women and Gender Studies Institute, at the University of Toronto. Before joining the University of Toronto in 1996, Shahrzad taught and worked at the University of Windsor, Ryerson University, and Concordia University.
Shahrzad was born in Shiraz, Iran, and has lived in Canada since 1986. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts in 1977 in Iran in the English language and continued her education to obtain her Master of Arts in Comparative Education and Administration, Higher and Continuing Education in 1979, and her Ph.D. in Educational Policy Studies and Women’s Studies in 1991, both at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Main Contributions
- The first prize winner in the Women’s WORLD writing contest, “Women’s Voices in War Zones”, 2003
- Former Director of the Women and Gender Institute at the University of Toronto, 2003-2008
- Recipient of Distinguished Contribution to Graduate Teaching Award at the University of Toronto, 2008
- Author of 9 books
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