Born in Iran, Mina Yazdani was a medical student at Shiraz University when the Islamic Revolution broke out in 1979. She was dismissed from the university, in 1981, during the Cultural Revolution, because of being a Baha’i. She then studied via correspondence with Indiana University and earned her BGS. In 2004, she moved to Canada where she received an MA in Religion and Culture from Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, and subsequently, her PhD from the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Her PhD dissertation is titled “Religious Contentions in Modern Iran, 1881-1941.” She is currently an Assistant Professor of history at Eastern Kentucky University. Among her publications are a monograph dealing with the social history of the Qajar period as well as a number of articles including, “The Confessions of Dolgoruki: Fiction and Master narrative in Twentieth-Century Iran,” Iranian Studies, vol. 44, no.1 (January 2011): 25-47.