Curriculum Vitae
Majid Mohammadi
majidmohammadi@hotmail.com
majid.mohammadi@binghamton.edu
Education
2006
Ph.
D.
Sociology, Stony
Brook University (anticipated)
2002
M.A.
Sociology, Stony Brook
University
1990
M.A.
Philosophy, Tehran
University
1987
M.A.
Theology
and Islamic Law, Qum Seminary
1984
B.S.
Electronic
and Electrical Engineering, Shiraz University
Publications
1. Books (in Persian)
Three
Political Programs in
Contemporary Iran: Constitutional Monarchy/Guardianship, Republicanism,
Absolute Authoritarianism, (forthcoming)
Sociology of
Media, Tehran:
Tarh-e No
(forthcoming)
2003
Religion
and Communications, Tehran:
Kavir
2002
Heaven’s
Ladder: Analytic Philosophy of Religion, Tehran: Markaz
2002 New
Iranian Cinema, 1983-2000, Tehran:
Jame’eh ye Iranian
2002
Mystery of Dialogue, Tehran:
Cultural Relation Association (one chapter translated to Urdu)
2001
Authoritarian Face: Iranian TV, 1990-2000, Tehran: Jame’eh
ye Iranian
2001
Satellites, Tehran:
Ghatreh
2001 Media
Ethics, Tehran:
Naghsh-o Negar
2001
Ethical Systems in Iran and
Islam, Tehran: Kavir
2000
Iranian
Liberalism, Tehran:
Jame’eh ye Iranian
2000
Political Reforms Quandary in Iran Today, Tehran: Jame’eh
ye Iranian
1999
Civil
Society: Iranian Style, Tehran:
Markaz
1999
An Introduction to Political Behavior of Iranian
Students:
1979-99, Tehran:
Kavir
1999
Religion
vs. Faith, Tehran:
Kavir
1998
Multimedia, Tehran:
Ghatreh
1998
An Introduction to Sociology and Economics of Culture
in Iran Today, Tehran: Ghatreh
1998
Otherwise,
Philosophy of Life, Tehran:
Ghatreh
1998
Philosophical
Problems, Tehran:
Ghalam
1997
Civil
Society as a Method, Tehran:
Ghatreh
1997
Cable
Communications, Tehran:
Ghatreh
1997
Informational
Superhighways, Tehran:
Ghatreh
1995
Contemporary Theology in Iran,
Tehran:
Ghatreh
(also translated to Arabic)
1992
Cinema and
Life, Tehran:
Mina
1992
Religious
Pathology, Tehran:
Tafakkor
1991
Technology:
Logic, Method, Tehran:
Chapakhsh
1990
Technique
of Film Analysis, Tehran:
Nai
2.
Book Chapters, Co-authored and Co-translated Books (in Persian)
2004 ‘Ashura in a Secular Epoch, in `Ashura
in
Transition to Secular Epoch, Tehran:
Kavir.
2003 “Mosque and Society”, “Mosque and
Educational System”, “Mosque and State”, and “Mosque and Politics”, in Mosque
in Tradition and Modernity, ed. by Emad ad-din Baghi, Tehran: Sarabi.
2001
Three
chapters of a book on Alan Parker’s The Wall, Tehran: Nai.
2001 “Love Saga”, in Twenty
Years Kalaidar, Tehran:
Nashre Kochak
2000 “Cultural Logic
of Late
Capitalism” (Fredric Jameson, translation to Persian), in Cultural
Logic of
Late Capitalism, Tehran:
Hermes
1997
Class Control (translation to Persian with Sade
Hamzeh), Tehran,
Roshd
1995
“Four Kinds of Religiosity in Contemporary Iran”, in
Yousofi
Eshkevari, Hasan (ed) To Ali Shari’ati, Tehran: Tafakkor
1994
Fish
Marketing (with Hooshang Nayebi), Tehran:
Iran’s
Fishery
Organization
1994
“Cinema and Religion” in Khorramshahi, Baha Al-ddin,
(ed.), Culture
and Religion, Tehran:
Tarh-e No
The Informational City:
Information
Technology, Economic
Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process (Manuel Castells), Tehran: Cultural
Relation
Association, (forthcoming)
1998
Religion:
Here, Now (Hammond et al.), Tehran:
Ghatreh
1997
Point of
View in Cinema (Edward Branigan), Tehran:
Farabi
1997
Politics and Sociology in the Thought of Max Weber
(Anthony Giddens), Tehran:
Ghatreh (reprinted in 2005)
1994 Varieties of Social Explanation: An
Introduction to Philosophy of Social Science (Daniel Little), Tehran
1991
Elements
of Semiology (Roland Barth), Tehran:
Al-hoda
Editing of Persian translation of
following books: Kenya,
Intifazdeh, Oil, Research Method, Bergman, How to Read a Film, Jesus
Christ
2003
“Rafsanjani”, “Khamenei’ ’’, “Kho’ i”, “Pasdaran”,
“Revolutionary Committees”, “Hojjatieh Society”, “Sadr, Musa al”,
“Sadr,
Mohammad Bagher”, Encyclopedia of Islam and Muslim World, N.Y.:
Macmillan
2001
“Aslah”, Great Encyclopedia of Islam (in
Persian), Tehran: The Center of Great Encyclopedia of
Islam
6. Journal Articles (in
Persian)
More than one hundred articles and
book reviews in
journals and periodicals: Nameh-ye Farhang, Rasaneh, Farhang, Honar
haye
Ziba, Farabi, Pajoohesh Nameh, Nameh-ye Pajoohesh, Rahyaft, Journal of
the
International Society for Iranian Studies
7. Periodicals (in Persian and
English)
More
than 400
essays, book reviews, and film reviews in:
*Dailies: Kayhan, Abrar,
Entekhab, Khordad, Hamshahri,
Iran, Neshat, Asr-e Aazadegaan, Payam-e Aazadi, Sobh-e Emrooz, Pars,
Javan,
Fatah, Salam, Kar-o Karegar (Iran), NZZ (Switzerland), The Daily Star
(Lebanon)
*Weeklies: Aava, Aaban, Bahman,
Bahar, Haft- ye Ketab,
Soroush (Iran),
Facts (Switzerland)
*Monthlies: Iran-e Farda,
Jame’e-ye Salem, Shokoufeh,
Kian, Kaihan-e Farhangi, Zanan, Daneshgah-e Enghelab, Ettela’at-e Elmi,
Arghavan,
Daftar-e Sayd, Film, Gozaresh-e Film, Farhang va Cinema, Jahan-e Ketab,
Anjoman, Gozaresh-e Ketab, Ayeneh ye Andisheh, Chap va Enteshar,
San’at-e Chap,
San’at-e Tasvir, Didar, Lawh, Safheh-ye Avval and Nameh
*Bi-monthlies: Kayhan-e Andisheh
Fellowship
Stanford
Summer Fellows on Democracy and Development, 2005
International Policy Fellowship, Open Society Institute, 2006
Research
Experiences
1. Research Grants
2000 Research Paradigms in Religious
Studies: Iran,
1990-2000, Office of Religious Studies, Qum, Iran
1999 Music Consumption in Iran, National
Center for Research in
Public
Opinions, Tehran, Iran
1999 Developmental Values in Islamic
Perspective,
with Emad al-din Baghi, Ministry of Endowment, Kuwait
1998 Iran’s
Mosques: Utilities and Appliances, Iran’s
Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, Tehran, Iran
1997
Attitude of People Who Live in Shiraz
toward difficulties of getting license to build house, Shiraz Municipality,
Shiraz, Iran
1996
Attitudes of People Who Live in Shiraz toward
Non-permanent
Marriage, with Mehran Jahangiri, Women’s Commission, Fars Province
Governor’s
Office, Shiraz, Iran
1996
Directory of Iranian Authors, Researchers and Artists,
Andisheh
Cultural Center, Tehran,
Iran
1996 Electronic Media in Modern World,
Ministry
of Culture and Islamic Guidance
1992 Political Behavior of Iranian
Strata, Iran’s Strategic Research
Center, Tehran, Iran
1989 Modern Iranian Theologians,
Jahad-e
Daneshgahi, Tehran,
Iran
2.
Administrative
Activities
1990-92 Director
of Research, Division of
Iranian’s Political Behavior, Iran’s Strategic Research
Center
Professional Experiences
Workshops
1.
Organizer
1997 Drafting
Publishing Law for Iran,
Iran’s
Ministry
of Culture and Islamic Guidance
1996 Drafting
Non-governmental Radio-TV Law for Iran,
Tehran
Local TV
Station
1996
Iranian
Radio-TV Policies, Iran’s
Radio and TV research Center
1995 Project for Establishing Tehran
Local TV Station, Tehran
Local TV Station
2.
Member
1999
National Publishing Policies, Tehran’s Book Publisher Association
-2000
1998
Iran’s
Cultural Policies, Iran’s
Radio
and TV Research Center
1998
Five years’ Plan for Iranian Mosques’ Development and
Maintenance, Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance
1998
Inclusive Project for Studying Iranian Religious
Institutions, Iran’s
Ministry
of Culture and Islamic Guidance
Teaching
Spring
2006 Elementary Persian
Language, I & II, Binghamton
University
Spring
2005 Sociology of
Deviance and Sociology of
Technology, Stony Brook University
(adjunct), Sociological Theory, Southampton College
(adjunct)
Spring
2004 State and Society
in the Middle East,
Gender and Genre in Film, Stony
Brook University
(adjunct)
Fall
2003
Sociology of Religion, Stony Brook
University
(instructor)
Fall
2000
Medical Sociology, Sociology of
Reproduction, Sociology
-Spring
03 of
Technology, Sociology of Crime,
Sociological Theory and Research Methods, Stony Brook
University
(teaching
assistant)
1990
Psychology of Advertisement/News
Editing/News
Reporting/
Writing
for Press, College of Media, Tehran
(adjunct)
1990
Film
Theory, Open University, Tehran
(adjunct)
1985-1990
History
of Islam & Ethics, Radio-TV
College, Tehran
(adjunct)
1980-81
Theology, College
of Education, Shiraz (adjunct)
1980
Iran’s
Constitution, Center for Re-training Teachers, Shiraz (instructor)
1980
Interpretation
of Quran, Construction Corps, Shiraz
(instructor)
1979
Theology, Haj Ghavam High School,
Shiraz
(instructor)
Editorial and Advisory Boards
1.
Press
2000
Advisory, Asr-e Aazadegan, Daily
1999
Advisory, Neshat, Daily
1999
Advisory, Khorad, Daily
1994
Founder
and Editor, Naghd-e Cinema (Film Critique) Monthly
1993-94
Founder
and Editor, San’at-e Tasvir (TV and Movie Industry), Monthly
1990-91
Editorial
Board, Arghavan, Monthly
1990-91
Editorial
Board, Nameh ye Farhang, Journal
1990
Editorial Board, Gozaresh-e Film
(Film Review), Monthly
1989
Editorial
Board, Kayhan-e Farhangi, Monthly
1988
Editorial
Board, Soroush, weekly
1981-83
Editorial
Board, Resalat, Monthly
2.
Publishing Industry
1995-2000
Advisory, Tarh-e No Publisher House
1988-1993
Advisory,
Alhoda Publisher House
Writing for Electronic Media
2002 Radio France
Internationale:
Correspondant Journaliste Etranger
-2006
2002 Gooya News Website (An essay per
week from
May 2002)
-2005
2003 BBC: Correspondence
1994 Kar Agah (Inspector), script of
two episodes
of a TV fiction series, each one 50 minutes and plot of six parts
(writers of
other parts: Jamal Omid and Hasan Hedayat)
1981 Takht-e Jamshid (Persepolis), text for 13 programs of
a radio
series, each one 30 minutes
Presentations
1.
Conferences
2006 Processes and Mechanisms of Cultural Change, History Matters: The 8th Annual Historical Studies and Sociology Joint Conference, New School for Social Research, NY, U.S.
2006 Iranian University Students’ Politics in the Post-Reform Movement Era, Conference on Middle East Studies, Boston, U.S.
2005 Foundationalist, Legitimizing,
Developmental
and Reconstructionist Theories of Constitutionalism:
Developments in the Constitutional Politics in Post-
Revolutionary Iran,
23rd Annual Conference of the Center for Iranian Research
and Analysis
Widener University, Pennsylvania,
USA
2005
Eschatological and
Ritualistic Roots of Shi’ite Insurgency in
Iraq, 52nd Annual New York
State
Sociological Association Conference, Oswego, NY, U.S.
2004
Healthcare in Post-revolutionary Iran: a Sociological Point of View,
Fifth
Biennial Conference on Iranian Studies, Bethesda, MD, U.S.
2004 Iranian
Feminism and the Civil Rights Movement in Post Khomeini Iran, Annual Meeting of the Eastern
Sociological
Society, New York City,
U.S.
2003 Internet and Treasure House of Information, Conference on Middle East Studies, Anchorage, Alaska,
U.S (also organizer and chair of the panel titled
“The Internet
in Iran: A Sociological Perspective”).
2003 Iran’s Way of Constitutionalism after
1996:
Interpretations of Iran’s Constitution by the Judiciary and the
Reformers, LSA
Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,
U.S.
2003
Dual Military System in a
Post-revolutionary
Society: Iran's
Case, 73rd, Annual
Meeting of
the Eastern Sociological Society, Military Sociology Sessions, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
U.S.
2002 Human
Rights and Reform Movement in Iran
Today, Conference on Iranian Study, Bethesda,
Maryland, U.S.
2002 Civil Right Movement in Iran: 1996-2002, Conference on Middle
East
Studies, Washington
DC, U.S.
2000 Religious Institutions and State
in Iran Today,
Conference on Iranian Study, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
2000 Iranian
Press and Civil Society, Conference on Iranian Study, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.
1999
Re-reading Prophecy, Conference on Prophecy, Shiraz University,
Shiraz, Iran
1999 Media
and
Civil Society in Iran
Today,
Conference on Iran
in 21st
Century, Cyprus
1999 Sociology
of
Ethics, Conference on Ethics, Ardabil,
Iran
1996
Ashoora [Ritual Funeral for a Shi’ite Saint, Imam Hussein]
Culture
in a Secular Age, International Congress for Imam Khomeini Anniversary,
Tehran, Iran
1992
Cultural and Social Factors of Underdevelopment of Fishery
Sector
in Iran, Fourth
Conference
of Fishery, Tehran,
Iran
2.
Invited Talks
2002 Islam
after 9/11, The Stony Brook
School, NY, U.S.
2002 Iranian
Reformist Press: Survival and Development after 2000, Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington, U.S.
2000
Political Development in Iran
Today, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
Religious Study Research in Iran
Today, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Religion and State in Iran
Today, Zurich University, Zurich, Switzerland
1999
Genealogy of Religious Epistemology in Iran
Today, International Society for Islamic Thought, Amman,
Jordan
1999
Economics
of Religion, Association of
Cultural Development, Tabriz,
Iran
1998 Shari’ati
and Religious State,
Association of Cultural Development, Tabriz, Iran
1998
Shari’ati and
Culture, Ahvaz University, Ahvaz, Iran
1998
Re-reading
Tradition, Amir Kabir University,
Tehran, Iran
1998
Rule of Law: Elements and Obstacles, Booshehr University,
Booshehr, Iran
1998
Press Development in Iran
Today, Second Conference on Media, Tehran, Iran
1996
Fundamentals of Book Censorship in Iran,
Seminar on Book Censorship, Andisheh Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
1995
Cinema and Communication Technology, Seminar on Cinema and
Communication, Bahman Cultural Center, Tehran, Iran
Membership
G2K (Gulf
2000): 2003-6
MESA (Middle East
Studies Association): 2002-6
SIS
(Society of Iranian
Studies): 2000-5
ESS
(Eastern Sociological
Society): 2003-5
LSA (Law
and Society
Association): 2003-4
Language Skills
Persian
(Fluency)
English
(Fluency)
Classical
Arabic (Reading, Listening and Writing)
Ancient
Greek and Latin
(Reading)
French and German (Reading)