Dr. Yass Alizadeh
Persian Language Lecturer
Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
New York University
Dr. Kathryn Babayan
Associate Professor of Iranian History and Culture
Department of Near Eastern Studies
University of Michigan
Dr. Anne Betteridge
Professor, Iranian Women and Culture
Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies
University of Arizona
Dr. Touraj Daryaee
Baskerville Professor in the History of Iran and the Persianate World
School of Humanities
University of California, Irvine
Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar
Patti Cadby Birch Curator, Department of Islamic Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art
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 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
John and Dorothy Munroe Distinguished Professor of History Department of History
University of Delaware
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. Sunil Sharma
Professor of Persianate and Comparative Literature
Convener of Persian and Hindi-Urdu
Pardee School of Global Studies
Boston University
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. 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
