Department of Sociology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Tasks
Faculty member of Social Welfare Quarterly
Experiences
PROFESSORIAL POSITIONS
• 2024-Present Co-Editor, Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal
• 2023 Visiting scholar, Sciences Po, Paris, France
• 2017-present Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Calgary
• 2012-2013 Professor, Department of Sociology, Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 2010-2017 Professor, Sociology, University of Lethbridge (on leave 2012-13)
• 2004-2010 Associate-Professor, Sociology, University of Lethbridge
• 2000-2004 Assistant-Professor, Sociology, University of Lethbridge
• 1999-2000 Instructor (sessional), Sociology, University of Winnipeg
• 1997-2000 Instructor (sessional), Sociology, University of Manitoba
• 1989-1992 Research Faculty, Institute for Research in Planning and Development, Iran
• 1989-1991 Instructor (Sessional), Department of Sociology, Al-Zahra University, Iran
NON-PROFESSORIAL
• 1999-2000 Researcher, project: Changing Colour of Poverty in Canada, Funded by The
Prairie Center of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Integration
• 1998-1999 SPSS consultant, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba
• 1998-1999 Researcher, project: Triple Ghetto: The Spatial Concentration of Poverty
Among Prairie's Immigrants, Funded by Prairie Center of Excellence for
Research on Immigration and Integration
• 1997-1999 Research Assistant, project: Integration and Segregation of Urban Prairie
VisibleMinority Immigrants to Canada, Department of Sociology, University
of Manitoba
• 1993-1995 Teaching Assistant, Department of Sociology, University of Manitoba
• 1989-1992 Researcher & Project Associate-Director, "The Obstacles to Development in
Iran", Institute for Research in Planning and Development, Iran
• 1988-1989 Research Advisor, Office of Research Projects, Deputy Minister of
Education, Iran
• 1984-1987 Researcher, The Centre for Research on Social and political Issues, Iranian
Broadcasting Organization, Tehran, Iran
• 1983-1984 High-school teacher, English as a Second Language, Ministry of Education,
Iran
• 1981-1982 Field researcher, Centre for Service-Delivery to Nomads, Lorestan, Iran
In-preparation
• Kazemipur, A. & Akbary, H. (in-preparation). From Western Asia to Western Canada: A
Sociological Study of Afghan and Iranian Immigrants in Canada.
• Kazemipur, A. (in-preparation-50% complete). Abroad: A Glimpse into the Cultural-
Intellectual Properties of the West in the Minds of Iranians. (in Persian)
Published
• Kazemipur, A. (2024). dini be ghadre ma hova elmani: al-almania fi zell-e
nazam al-hokme dini fi Iran. Beirut: Arab Network for Research and Publishing (in
Arabic)
عبدالمحمد کاظمیبور. ٢٠٢٤ . دینی بقدر ما ھو دنیوی: العلمانیھ فی ظل نظام الحکم الدینی فی ایران. بیروت
(لبنان). جسور للترجمھ والنشر.
• Kazemipur, A. & M. Goodarzi (2023), What Went Wrong? The Story of the Decline of
Community in Iran. Tehran: Nashre Agar. (in Persian)
• Kazemipur, A. (2022), Sacred as Secular: Secularization under Theocracy in Iran. McGill-
Queen’s University Press.
• Kazemipur, A. & B. Sadighi (2018), Between Hope and Fear: A Study of the Lives of Muslim
Immigrants in Canada, Tehran: Nashre-Nay (in Persian)
[selected as one of the 7 nominees for the 2019 Iran’s Social Science Book
of the Year Award]
• Kazemipur, A. (2014). The Muslim Question in Canada: A Story of Segmented Integration.
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press
o [recipient of the 2015 John Porter Award by Canadian Sociological
Association]
• Kazemipur, A. (2009), Social Capital and Diversity: Some Lessons from Canada, Bern: Peter
Lang AG: International Academic Publisher.
• Kazemipur, A. (2008). The Generation X: A Sociological Account of the Iranian Youth, Tehran:
Nashre-Nay Publisher. (in Persian)
• Kazemipur, A. (2005), Social Capital in Iran, Tehran: Iranian Ministry of Culture Publishers.
(in Persian)
• Kazemipur, A. (2004), An Economic Sociology of Immigrant Life in Canada, New York: Nova
Science Publishers, Inc.
• Kazemipur, A. (2004), Religious Beliefs and Behaviours in Iran: 1974-2001, Tehran: Iranian
Ministry of Culture Publishers. (in Persian)
• Kazemipur, A. and S. S. Halli (2000), The New Poverty in Canada: Ethnic Groups and Ghetto
Neighbourhoods, Toronto: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc.
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