Biography

After receiving her BA in Accounting and Business Administration from Ferdowsi University in Iran, Fariba Solati moved to Winnipeg, Canada, in 1993.

She received an MA in Economics (2007) and an Interdisciplinary PhD in Economics from the University of Manitoba (2015). From 2010 to 2016, she was a lecturer in the Department of Economics, Global Political Economy Program, and the International College of Manitoba at the University of Manitoba as well as at the University of Winnipeg. Dr. Solati joined the Department of Economics at St. Thomas University in August 2016.

In her research, Dr. Solati is interested in examining the effects of different economic policies and institutions on labor force participation across countries and over time. She has extensively examined how patriarchy adversely affects women’s participation in the labor market. Her passion about women’s rights and social justice is reflected in her research as well as her teaching. Dr. Solati’s book, Women, Work and Patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa, has been endorsed by leading scholars in the field of Gender and Development and has been recommended to be used by graduate and undergraduate students in different fields across the social sciences and as a reference for policy-makers, NGOs and international organizations.

Dr. Solati’s current research projects focus mainly on economic activities of immigrants in Canada. She specifically investigates the effects of immigration policies, culture, language proficiency, education and training on the labor force participation of immigrants in Canada.

As a professor, Dr. Solati aims to teach students how to be critical thinkers. She encourages her students to think analytically by addressing the underpinning assumptions of different theories, and by arguing different points of views. She helps her students to be active learners and guides her students to make the connection between theories and economic models with everyday social, political and economic problems. For her dedication to high quality teaching, she was awarded the University of Manitoba Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award in 2012 and was nominated for the John McKendy Memorial Teaching Award in 2018, 2019 and 2020 at St. Thomas University.

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