Leila Pourtavaf

Assistant Professor

Biography

Leila Pourtavaf is Assistant Professor at the Department of History, York University.

She was a visiting scholar at the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, New York University (2020-2021) and a visiting assistant professor of Modern Middle East History at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University (2018-2020).

AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Modern Iranian and Middle East History, Visual Culture, Public History, Women and Gender Studies, Archival Studies

Education

PhD, University of Toronto