Advisory Board

Encyclopedia Iranica Advisory Board

• Ladan Akbarnia
  • San Diego Museum of Art
  • Art History, Islamic Art
• Nadeem Akhtar
  • Ashoka University
  • Literature, Modern Persian
• Nasir Al-Kaabi
  • University of Kufa
  • Late Antique Near East
• Michael Alram
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Numismatics
• Roham Alvandi
  • London School of Economics and Political Science
  • History, Pahlavi Period
• Jaleh Amouzgar
  • University of Tehran
  • Middle Persian Language & Literature
• Miguel Ángel Andrés Toledo
  • University of Toronto
  • Avestan and Old Iranian
• Ali Ansari
  • University of St. Andrews
  • Modern Iran
• Touraj Atabaki
  • University of Leiden
  • Iran & the Caucasus
• Ali Banuazizi
  • Boston College
  • Political Science
• Chiara Barbati
  • University of Pisa
  • Sogdian Language & Literature, Christianity
• Fereidoun Biglari
  • National Museum of Iran
  • Archaeology, Prehistoric
• Alberto Cantera
  • University of Berlin
  • Avestan and Zoroastrian Studies
• Houchang Chehabi
  • Boston University
  • International Relations and History
• Adela Chiru
  • University of Bucharest
  • Literature, Persian Novel
• Omar Coloru
  • Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
  • Ancient History
• Ashk Dahlén
  • Uppsala University
  • Linguistics & Philology
• Anca Dan
  • Collège de France
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, Geography & Hellenistic History
• Julian Degen
  • Universität Trier
  • Ancient History
• Mostafa Dehpahlevan
  • University of Tehran
  • Archaeology, Historical Period
• Agostini Domenico
  • Università di Napoli
  • Zoroastrianism
• Sayeh Eghtesadinia-Salour
  • Georgetown University
  • Persian Literature
• Shervin Farridnejad
  • University of Hamburg
  • History and Culture of Religions
• Hassan Fazeli Nashli
  • University of Tehran
  • Archaeology, Neolithic
• Saloumeh Gholami
  • University of Cambridge
  • Manuscript Studies & Philology
• Suchandra Ghosh
  • University of Hyderabad
  • Indo-Persian History
• Hilary Gopnik
  • Monash University, Australia
  • Iron Age / Medes
• Frantz Grenet
  • Collège de France
  • Archaeology, Central Asia
• Simcha Gross
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • History, Late Antiquity, Jewish Studies
• Rika Gyselen
  • CNRS, Emeritus
  • Seals, Epigraphy, Numismatics
• Wouter Henkelman
  • École Pratique des Hautes Études
  • Archaeology, Epigraphy, History: Elam & Achaemenids
• Almut Hintze
  • SOAS
  • Avestan and Zoroastrian Studies
• Minoru Inaba
  • Kyoto University
  • Centra Asia, East Asia, and South Asia
• Ramin Jahanbegloo
  • P. Jindal Global University
  • Philosophy & Ethics
• Mohsen Javeri
  • University of Kashan
  • Archaeology
• Hadi Jorati
  • University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • History of Science
• Pamela Karimi
  • Cornell University
  • Art History
• Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Early Modern History
• Prashant Keshavmurthy
  • McGill University
  • Indo-Persian Literature
• Hilmar Klinkott
  • Universität Kiel
  • Ancient History, Achaemenid Empire
• Jane Lewisohn
  • UC Irvine
  • Music & Culture
• Pavel Lurje
  • Hermitage Museum
  • Archaeology, Central Asia
• Behroz Mahmoodi-Bakhtiari
  • University of Tehran
  • Persian Linguistics & Language & Culture
• Sárközy Miklós
  • Károli Gáspár University
  • Ancient and Medieval History
• Daryoush Mohammad Poor
  • Institute of Ismaili Studies
  • Ismaili and Medieval History
• Arya Moknat
  • UC Irvine
  • Philosophy & Political Thought
• Mehdi Mortazavi
  • University of Sistan and Baluchestan
  • Archaeology, Bronze Age of Southeast Iran
• Jake Nabel
  • Penn State University
  • History, Parthian Period
• Krzysztof Nawotka
  • University of Wroclaw
  • Ancient & Hellenistic History
• Sara Niroobakhsh
  • NYU Abu Dhabi
  • Digital Technology
• Sara Nur Yıldız
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi
  • History, Seljuk
• Mahmoud Omidsalar
  • UC Irvine
  • Folklore & Mythology
• Antonio Panaino
  • Università di Bologna
  • Ancient Iranian Philology, Ancient Religions
• Alka Patel
  • UC Irvine
  • Art History, Indian & Islamic Art
• Andrea Piras
  • Università di Bologna
  • Manichean Studies
• Mohammad Fahim Rahimi
  • Cultural Heritage of Afghanistan Conservation and Research Institute
  • Archaeology
• Stephen Rapp
  • Sam Houston State University
  • History, Caucasus
• Céline Redard
  • University of Strasbourg
  • Zoroastrianism, Avesta
• Kai Ruffing
  • Universität Kassel
  • Ancient History & Economies
• Velizar Sadovski
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Indo-Iranian Philology
• Neda Sahranavard
  • UCI Irvine
  • English in Persian Studies
• Catherine Sameh
  • UC Irvine
  • Gender & Sexuality
• Houman Sarshar
  • Independent Scholar
  • History, Jewish Studies
• Sarah Bowen Savant
  • Aga Khan University
  • History, Early Islamic Period
• Rudiger Schmitt
  • Saarland University
  • Iranian Philology
• Asghar Seyed-Ghorab
  • Utrecht University
  • Persian Literature
• Florian Schwarz
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Central Asian History
• Nahid Siamdoust
  • University of Texas at Austin
  • Iranian National Culture Production and Social Media
• Fabizio Sinisi
  • Austrian Academy of Sciences
  • Numismatics, Parthian
• Lior Sternfeld
  • Penn State University
  • Iranian Jewry
• Rolf Strootman
  • Utrecht University
  • Ancient History, Seleucid Empire
• Gianfilippo Terribili
  • Sapienza – Università di Roma
  • Ancient Iranian Religion and Epigraphy
• Roxanne Varzi
  • UC Irvine
  • Anthropology
• Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina
  • University of Oxford
  • Zoroastrian & Middle Persian
• Josef Wiesehöfer
  • University of Kiel
  • Ancient History
• Claudia Yaghoobi
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • History, Gender & Diaspora
• Houra Yavari
  • Columbia University
  • Persian Literature