NEAR EASTERN LANGUAGES & CULTURES
IRANIAN STUDIES
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES

FACULTY


Professor Hossein Ziai
Professor of Iranian and Islamic Studies
Director of the Program of Iranian Studies

CONTACT OFFICE: 388 Humanities
TEL.: 310-206-1382
E-MAIL: ziai@humnet.ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Persian Classical Literature
 Islamic Philosophy
Persian Linguistics

Professor M. Rahim Shayegan
Musa Sabi Assistant Professor of Iranian

CONTACT OFFICE: 386 Humanities
TEL.: 310-825-4877
E-MAIL: shayegan@humnet.ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Iranian Philology
Ancient Iranian History
Pre-Islamic Iranian Religions

Professor Elizabeth Carter
Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology

CONTACT OFFICE: 384 Humanities
TEL.: 310-206-5474
E-MAIL: carter@humnet.ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Iranian Archaeology
Elamite History

Professor Hanns-Peter Schmidt
Professor Emeritus of Indo-Iranian

CONTACT OFFICE: 378 B Humanities
TEL.: 310-825-4335
E-MAIL: hschmidt@ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Indo-Iranian Philology

Professor Amin Banani
Professor Emeritus of Persian and History

CONTACT OFFICE: 378 B Humanities
TEL.: 310-825-4335
E-MAIL: banani@ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Persian Literature
Medieval Iranian History

Dr. Latifeh Hagigi
Lecturer in Persian

CONTACT OFFICE: 399 Humanities
TEL.: 310-794-9407
E-MAIL: hagigile@ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Persian Language
Qajar History

Dr. Nahid Pirnazar
Adjunct Lecturer

CONTACT OFFICE: 378 B Humanities
TEL.: 310-825-8216
E-MAIL: nahid@humnet.ucla.edu

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Judeo-Persian Literature

 
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