Mikiya Koyagi

Department of Middle Eastern Studies University of Texas at Austin 204 W 21st Street Stop F 9400, Austin, TX 78712 [email protected]

Appointments 2018-present Assistant Professor Department of Middle Eastern Studies, UT Austin 2015-2018 Assistant Professor Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU

Education 2015 Ph.D., History, The University of Texas at Austin 2006 M.A., Middle Eastern Studies, The University of Texas at Austin 2000 Bachelor of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Publications Books 1. Iran in Motion: Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway (forthcoming in April 2021 from Stanford University Press)

Peer-Reviewed Articles 2. “Drivers Across the Desert: Infrastructure and Sikh Migrants in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands, 1919-1931,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East vol. 39, no. 3 (December 2019): 375-388.

3. “The Vernacular Journey: Railway Travelers in Early Pahlavi Iran, 1925-1950,” International Journal of Middle East Studies vol. 47, no. 4 (October 2015): 745- 763.

4. “The Hajj by Japanese Muslims in the Interwar Period: Japan’s Pan-Asianism and Economic Interests in the Islamic World,” The Journal of World History vol. 24, no. 4 (2013): 849-876.

1 5. “Moulding Future Soldiers and Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Gender and Physical Education under Reza Shah, 1921-1941,” International Journal of the History of Sport vol. 26, no. 11 (2009): 1668-1696.

6. Review Article: “Modern Education in Iran during the Qajar and Pahlavi Periods,” History Compass vol. 7, no. 1 (2009): 107-118.

Book Chapters 7. “‘As Fellow Asians?’ Irano-Japanese Relations in the Interwar Period,” in Mehdi Khorrami and Behrad Aghaei eds., A Persian Mosaic: Essays on Persian Language, Literature and Film in Honor of M. R. Ghanoonparvar (Ibex Publishers, 2015), 70-85.

Book Reviews 8. Review of Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran: Education, Nationalism, and Print Culture (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2014), International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 48, No. 1 (2016): 202-204.

9. Review of “In Their Place”: Making and Unmaking Shi’ism in Pahlavi Iran (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, 2011) by Aaron Vahid Sealy. Dissertation Reviews, March 14, 2013.

Conference Proceedings 10. “The Politics of Railway Accidents: Speed, Danger, and Iranian Techno-Scientific Elites,” Islam and Multiculturalism: History, Challenges and Prospects (December 2016), 75-76.

11. “Constructing Iranian Physical Culture in the Interwar Period,” Islam and Multiculturalism: Islam in Global Perspective (November 2015), 34-41.

Invited Talks “Rethinking Iran’s Trans-Regional Connectivities in the Twentieth Century” (The National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka, July 2019)

“Iran in Motion: Experiences of the Trans-Iranian Railway” (The Middle East Center, University of Pennsylvania, February 2018)

2 “Iran in Motion: Encountering the Trans-Iranian Railway” (The Columbia University Seminar on Twentieth-Century Politics and Society, January 2018)

“Iran in Motion: Experiences of the Trans-Iranian Railway” (Islamic Area Studies Colloquium, Waseda University, January 2018)

“The First Japanese Hajji Goes Globetrotting: Yamaoka Mitsutaro’s Interwar Years” (Boston University, October 2016)

“Traveling Citizens in the Iranian Railway Space, 1900-1950” (Iranian Studies Initiative, New York University, November 2015)

Invited Workshops/Conferences “Muhammad, Allah, and the Eight Million Gods of Shinto,” SSRC Inter-Asian Research Workshop at University of Richmond (April 2020-postponed to 2021 due to COVID-19)

“Sikh Drivers in the Indo-Iranian Borderlands,” Global Asia Conference, NYU Shanghai (August 2018)

“The Politics of Railway Accidents: Speed, Danger, and Iranian Techno-Scientific Elites” Islam and Multi-Culturalism (Waseda University, December 2016)

“Constructing an Iranian Physical Culture,” Islam in Global Perspective (NYU Abu Dhabi, November 2015)

“Baluchs, Sikhs, and the Baluchistan Frontier in the Early Pahlavi Period,” After the Persianate Conference (University of Oklahoma, 2014)

Presentations “Technology and Manhood in Early Pahlavi Iran,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2019)

“The Transnational Mobility of the Trans-Iranian Railway,” European Conference of Iranian Studies (September 2019)

“Visions of Future: The First Japanese Hajji Writes About the Middle East,” The Association of Asian Studies Conference (March 2018)

3 “Speed, Danger, and Railway Accidents in Early Pahlavi Iran,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2017)

“Molding Iranian Railway Workers in the 1940s,” Iranian Studies Conference (August 2016)

“The Transnational Formation of the Iranian Railway Workforce,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2015)

“Living Along the Railway Routes: Enmity and Engagement in Lorestan during the Early Pahlavi Period,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2014)

“The Vernacular Journey: Iranian Railway Travelers, 1925-1950,” The 29th Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference (May 2014)

“The Other Story of the Persian Corridor: Experiencing Railways in Early Pahlavi Iran,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2013)

“The End of the Transnational Imagination of Easternism: Irano-Japanese Relations, 1900-1945” Iranian Studies Conference (2012)

“The Hajj by the Loyal Subjects of the Tenno in the Interwar Period,” World History Association of Texas Conference (2010), Texas Asia Conference (2011), and Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (November 2011)

“An Iranian Project?: The Trans-Iranian Railway and Nation-Building in the Reza Shah Period,” Iranian Studies Conference (2010)

“Rah Ahan-e Sarasari-ye Iran va Nasiunalism dar Nimeh-ye Avval-e Qarn-e Bistom“ (The Trans-Iranian Railway and Nationalism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century) (in Persian), Graduate Student Symposium in Persian at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2009)

“The Trans-Iranian Railway and Iranian Nationalism in the Early Twentieth Century,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (2008)

“Naqsh-e Zanan dar Defa‘-e Mellat: Negahi beh Didgah-e Dowlati-ye Jomhuri-ye Eslami-ye Iran dar Dowreh-ye Jang-e Tahmili” (The Roles of Women in Defending the Nation: A Study of Government-Sanctioned Views in the Islamic Republic of Iran during the Iran-Iraq War) (in Persian), Graduate Student Symposium in Persian at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin

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“Molding the Future Mothers of the Iranian Nation: Female Physical Education and the Culture of Exercise under Reza Shah,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (2007)

“The Discourse of Homosexuality in the Age of the Internet: The Egyptian Case,” Competing Diversities: Traditional Sexualities and Modern Western Sexual Identity Construction (Mexico City, 2005)

Panels Panelist, “Research Methodology,” Iran Graduate Student Workshop at University of Pennsylvania (May 2018)

Chair, “How Photography Changes Politics: The Case of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution,” Iran Graduate Student Workshop at University of Pennsylvania (May 2018)

Co-organizer (with Ismail Fajrie Alatas), “Asian Chronotopes of the Middle East/West Asia: Imaginations of Inter-Asian Connection and Mobility, Part I and II,” The Association of Asian Studies Conference (March 2018)

Chair, “Transnational Islam,” Islam and Multi-Culturalism (Waseda University, December 2016)

Chair, “Racketeers in Pahlavi Iran and Configurations of Masculinities,” Iran Graduate Student Workshop at Princeton University (April 2016)

Panelist, “Roundtable: What is the Changing Trajectory of the Intersection of Your Field and Modern Iranian Studies?” Iran Graduate Student Workshop at Princeton University (April 2016)

Selected Fellowships and Grants 2017-2018 Faculty Fellowship, The Center for the Humanities, NYU 2013 Dissertation Fellowship (Summer), UT Austin 2011 The Konosuke Matsushita Memorial Foundation Grant 2005 Iranian Studies Fellowship, UT Austin

5 Teaching Experience Graduate Courses “Mobility and Infrastructure” “Global Iran” “The Ideas of the East” “History of the Modern Middle East, 1750-Present” “Modern Iran”

Undergraduate Courses “From the Middle East to the Far East: The Idea of the East” “Technology, Society, and Culture in the Muslim World” “Modern Iran” “Transnational Asia” “Iran Past and Present” “Introduction to the Modern Middle East” “Global Iran” (conducted in Persian)

Guest Lectures at UT Austin “Taming Speed: Preventing Railway Accidents in Early-Pahlavi Iran” (Brownbag Lecture Series, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin, October 2018)

“Teaching History in Persian,” Communication in the Classroom: Conversations About Teaching Language (on the panel “Content Courses: More Than Just Advanced Language), UT Austin (October 2018)

Capstone Seminar in MES (Spring 2019)

Gateway to Middle Eastern Studies (Fall 2018, Fall 2019)

Service to Profession Report for ICOMOS (an advisory body to UNESCO on World Heritage Sites) (2019) The MESA Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee (2019) Iran Book Review Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2016-2019) Iran Graduate Student Workshop Steering Committee (Fall 2015-Spring 2018) Graduate Student Representative, The International Society for Iranian Studies (2011-2013)

6 Media Ajam Media Collective, Emerging Scholarship: Mikiya Koyagi on Travel, Mobility, and the Trans-Iranian Railroad (December 2015)

Translation of the article “Zhapon” (Japan) in a nineteenth-century Persian newspaper Tarbiyat (from Persian into English and Japanese), http://persian.nmelrc.org/texts/zhaapon1.html (2009)

Membership American Historical Association Association for Asian Studies Association for Iranian Studies Middle East Studies Association

Language Skills Japanese* (native) English* and Persian* (fluent) Arabic* (advanced) German* (intermediate) Chinese (intermediate)

*Used in previous research

Non-Academic Work Experience 2000-2001 West Japan Railway (JR Nishi-Nihon)

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