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BOARD OF TRUSTEES



INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEES





Dr. Yass Alizadeh

Persian Language Lecturer

Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies

New York University


Dr. Kamran Aghaie

Associate Professor

Center for Middle Eastern Studies

University of Texas at Austin


Dr. Abbas Amanat

Professor of History and International Studies

Department of History

Yale University


Dr. Kathryn Babayan

Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Michigan


Dr. Anne Betteridge

Director Center for Middle Eastern Studies

University of Arizona


Dr. Houchang Chehabi

Professor of International Relations and History

Fredrick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Boston University


Dr. Touraj Daryaee

Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World

School of Humanities

University of California, Irvine


Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar

Associate Curator Department of Islamic Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art


Dr. Carl Ernst

Director Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Dr. Hadi Salehi Esfahani

Director Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign


Dr. Massumeh Farhad

Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art

Freer Gallery of Art/Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

Smithsonian Institution


Dr. Mark B. Garrison

Chair and Professor

Department of Art and Art History

Trinity University


Dr. Iago Gocheleishvili

Senior Lecturer

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Cornell University


Dr. Manata Hashemi

Farzaneh Family Assistant Professor of Iranian Studies

International and Area Studies

University of Oklahoma


Dr. Hani Khafipour

Assistant Professor of Teaching Iranian History and Middle East Studies

Middle East Studies Program

University of Southern California


Dr. Linda Komaroff

Curator of Islamic Art/Department Head

Art of the Middle East

Los Angeles County Museum of Art


Dr. Justine Landau

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

Harvard University


Dr. Eric Lob

Assistant Professor

Department of Politics and International Relations

Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs

Florida International University


Dr. Rudi Matthee

John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History

Department of History

University of Delaware


Dr. Sima Shakhsari

Associate Professor

Department of Gender, Women and Sexualities Studies

University of Minnesota


Dr. M. Rahim Shayegan

Professor, Amuzegar Chair in Iranian

Director, Program of Iranian Studies

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Los Angeles


Dr. Daniel Sheffield

Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Princeton University


Dr. Brian Spooner

Professor of Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

University of Pennsylvania


Dr. Lior Sternfeld

Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies

Department of History

Pennsylvania State University



TRUSTEES-AT-LARGE





Dr. William Beeman

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

University of Minnesota


Dr. Sheila R. Canby

Curator Emerita

Department of Islamic Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art


Dr. Elizabeth Carter

Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Los Angeles


Dr. Christiane Gruber Associate

Professor Department of History of Art

University of Michigan


Dr. Judith Lerner

Independent Researcher

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

New York University


Dr. Richard Payne

Neubauer Family Assistant Professor

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

University of Chicago






ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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Dr. Prudence O. Harper

Curator Emerita

Metropolitan Museum of Art


Dr. Charles Kurzman

Professor Department of Sociology

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Dr. Paul Losensky

Professor of Iranian Studies Department of Central Eurasian Studies Indiana University


Dr. Daniel Potts

Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology and History

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

New York University

Dr. Matthew Stolper

John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Assyriology

University of Chicago



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