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BOARD OF TRUSTEES



INSTITUTIONAL TRUSTEES





Dr. Kathryn Babayan

Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture

Department of Near Eastern Studies

University of Michigan


Dr. Anne Betteridge

Professor Emerita

School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies

University of Arizona


Dr. Touraj Daryaee

Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies & Culture, History

School of Humanities

University of California, Irvine


Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar

Patti Cadby Birch Curator, Department of Islamic Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art


Dr. Aria Fani

Associate Professor of Persian and Iranian Studies

Director of Persian and Iranian Studies Program

University of Washington


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 in Persian

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Cornell University


Dr. Manata Hashemi

Farzaneh Family Associate Professor of Iranian Studies

University of Oklahoma


Dr. Linda Komaroff

Curator of Islamic Art/Department Head, Art of the Middle East

Los Angeles County Museum of Art


Dr. Mikiya Koyagi

Assistant Professor Middle Eastern Studies

University of Texas at Austin


Dr. Rudi Matthee

President

Persian Heritage Foundation

University of Delaware


Dr. Austin O'Malley

Assistant Professor of Persian Literature

Department of Middle Eastern Studies

University of Chicago


Dr. Holly Pittman

Bok Family Professor in the Humanities

Department of History of Art

University of Pennsylvania


Dr. Kamran Rastegar

Professor, International Literary and Cultural Studies

Director, Center for the Humanities

Tufts University


Dr. David Roxburgh

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History

Chair, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Harvard University ​


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

Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Department of Near Eastern Studies

Director, Sharmin & Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran

and Persian Gulf Studies

Princeton University


Dr. Claudia Yaghoobi

Roshan Institute Associate Professor of Persian Studies Director, UNC Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


Dr. Travis Zadeh

Associate Professor

Department of Religious Studies

​Director, Yale Program in Iranian Studies



TRUSTEES-AT-LARGE





Dr. William Beeman

Professor Emeritus

Department of Anthropology

University of Minnesota




Dr. Elizabeth Carter

Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

University of California, Los Angeles


Dr. Houchang Chehabi

Professor Emeritus of International Relations and History

Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies

Boston University


Dr. Justine Landau

Maître de conférences

Littérature persane classique

Université Sorbonne Nouvelle


Dr. Judith Lerner

Independent Researcher

Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

New York University


Dr. Beatrice Manz

Professor Emerita

Tufts University




ADVISORY COMMITTEE​

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Dr. Carl Ernst

Professor Emeritus and William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished

Professor

Department of Religious Studies

Co-Director, UNC Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies


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. Pouneh Shabani-Jadidi

Instructional Professor of Persian

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

University of Chicago


Dr. Sunil Sharma

Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature

Convener of Persian and Hindu-Urdu

Pardee School of Global Studies

Boston University


Dr. Lior Sternfeld

Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies

Department of History

Pennsylvania State University


Dr. Matthew Stolper

John A. Wilson Professor Emeritus of Assyriology

University of Chicago



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