AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF IRANIAN STUDIES

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 Profesor 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 Konaroff                                          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 Langauges 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. 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                                   Indepenedent Researcher                            Institute for the Study of the Ancient World   New York University

Dr. Richard Payne                                      Neubauer Family Assitant Professor        Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations                                                 University of Chicago

ADVISORY COMMITTEE

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