Carlo Giovanni Cereti#
| Membership Number: | 5905 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Affiliated section(s): | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2021 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
| Homepage(s): | https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/CARLO-GIOVANNI-CERETI_nC32_IT.aspx |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-8442-9554 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Full Professor in Iranian Philology, Religions and History at the Department of Classics, Faculty of Humanities, Sapienza - University of Rome
- 2018 - present Coordinator of the Class in Humanities at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza
- 2018 - present Director of the Winter School in Cultural Heritage of the Near and Middle East
- 2017 - present Rector’s delegate for International cooperation
- 2017 - present Senior Fellow at the Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati – Sapienza
- 2009 - 2017 Cultural Counsellor Embassy of Italy, Tehran
- 2000 University researcher at the Faculty of Humanities of Sapienza- Università di Roma
- 1997 - 1999 Researcher at the Kommission für Iranistik of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna and Lektor of ”Mitteliranische Sprachen” at the Institut für Sprachwissenschaft, Vienna University
- 1995 - 1999 Contract professor at the Faculty of Humanities of Sapienza - Università di Roma
Fields of Scholarship
- Zoroastrian Parsi community in India
- Middle Persian written materials from Sasanian and early Islamic times
- Middle Iranian Languages and Literatures
- Zoroastrian literature in Middle Persian.
- Pre-Islamic History of Iran
- Epigraphic Middle Persian and Parthian, with a focus on the Paikuli inscription,
- Zoroastrian Religion
- Sasanian and post-Sasanian written culture
- Cursive texts, glyptics and epigraphic documents in Middle Persian,
- Pre-Islamic Iranian religions
Honours and Awards
- 2018 Member of the Board of Directors UNIMED
- 2015 Director of the Mediterranean Region branch of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
- 2014 Associated member of ITABC\CNR
- 2010 Farabi Prize (UNESCO\ISESCO)
- 2006 - present Director of the Italian Mission to the Kurdish region of Iraq
- 2007 - 2011 President of Societas Iranologica Europaea.
- February 2007 directeur d’études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris
- 2007 - 2008 Scientific director of the project Building Capacities of Parliamentary Institutions and Promotion of Citizens’ Participation in the Arab countries and Middle East - Pilot Phase (Lebanon - Iraq - Jordan), UNDP/IPALMO
- 2004 - 2011 Member of the Board of Directors of the Istituto Italiano per l’Africa e l’Oriente (IsIAO)
- 2003 - 2007 Secretary and Treasurer – Societas Iranologica Europaea
- 2003 - 2006 Italian Governor at the Asia Europe Foundation (ASEF)
- 2002 "directeur de recherche" and thereafter "membre associé" of the UMRS "Monde iranien", CNRS
- 1999 - 2003 Treasurer – Societas Iranologica Europaea
- May 1999 directeur d’études at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Paris
