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Majid
Tehranian (Prof.of Intl.Communication Univ.of Hawaii &Dir.of the
Toda Inst.)
Majid Tehranian is professor of international communication at the
University of Hawaii and director of the Toda Institute for Global
Peace and Policy Research. A political economist by education, he
received his bachelor's degree from Dartmouth College and his master's
and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. He has taught at Harvard,
Oxford, Tufts, Southern California, and Tehran universities. His teaching
and research have focused on the international political economy of
culture, communication, development, democracy, and peace. He also
specializes in Middle Eastern and Asia-Pacific affairs. He is former
director of Communication and Development Institute (Tehran), program
specialist in Communication Research and Planning at UNESCO (Paris),
trustee of the International Institute of Communications (London),
convener of International Peace Research Association, and council
member of Asia-Pacific Peace Research Association. He has served on
the editorial boards of several publications, including Iranian Studies,
Communication and Development Review, Communication Theory, Communication
Research, Asian Journal of Communication, Communication and Information
Sciences Series, Journal of International Communication, and International
Encyclopedia of Communications. He currently edits Peace & Policy,
and the Toda Institute book series. He has authored more than 10 books
and about 100 articles. His articles have appeared in a variety of
scholarly journals. They have been also translated into French, Spanish,
German, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Slovenian, Korean, Japanese, Bahasa
Malay, Arabic, and Persian.
At the University of Hawaii where he has taught since 1981, Tehranian
has served as chairman of the Department of Communication and a founding
member and director of the Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace.
He also has initiated and directed such programs as the Pacific Peace
Seminar, Dialog on Peace television series, and served on the Faculty
Senate and the Board of Directors of the UH Professional Assembly.
He has received the UH/EWC Collaborative Research Grant (twice), the
Hawaii Interactive Television System's Curriculum Development Grant,
a Presidential Citation for Meritorious Teaching, and the Fujio Matsuda
Scholar Grant.
Tehranian is an internationally recognized scholar. He is Fellow of
the World Academy of Arts and Sciences, cited in Who's Who in the
World, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in Communications and the
Media. He is the recipient of Soka University's Award of Highest Honor
and Honorary Doctorate, a US Institute of Peace research grant, and
the Distinguished Service Award of the Association for Education in
Journalism and Mass Communication. Tehranian is a global nomad banished
to paradise where he surfs the Net and the Pacific. |
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