Abdolmohammad Kazemipur

Abdolmohammad Kazemipur is a professor of sociology and Chair of Ethnic Studies at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada, and the past president of Canadian Sociological Association. He received his BA and MA in sociology from University of Tehran (Iran) and his Ph.D. from University of Manitoba (Canada). Kazemipur has authored ten books and many journal articles and book chapters on his two principal research areas – socio-cultural trends in Iran, and socio-economic experiences of immigrants in Canada – writing in both English and Farsi.

The project

Title: History, Geography, and Soft/Hard Secularism: On the Integration of Muslims in Europe and North America

Keywords: Socio-economic integration of immigrants in western countries, secularity in the west, religious developments in the Muslim world and the Middle-East, social trends in Iran

Hosting institution: Sciences Po

Selection of publications

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. (2014). The Muslim Question in Canada: A Story of Segmented Integration. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press [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. (2020), “Between Populism and Political Correctness: Islamophobia in Canada”, Proceedings of the S.D. Clark Symposium on Racism, Islamophobia, Antisemitism, and the Future of Canadian Society. University of Toronto.

Evra, R. & A. Kazemipur (2019), “The role of social capital and ethnocultural characteristics in the employment income of immigrants over time”, Statistics Canada’s Insights on Canadian Society. June 19.

Kazemipur, A. (2018), “Religion in Canadian Ethnic Landscape: The Muslim Factor”, in Wong & Guo (Eds), Immigration, Racial and Ethnic Studies in 150 Years of Canada: Retrospect and Prospects. Sense Publishers, Pp.261-280.