Rahim Shayegan#
| Membership Number: | 5150 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2019 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED STATES |
| Homepage(s): | http://pourdavoud.ucla.edu/person/m-rahim-shayegan |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2017 - present Director, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, Division of Humanities, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2013 - present Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair of Iranian; Director, Program of Iranian Studies
- 2004 - present Assistant to Professor of Iranian, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2004 - 2009 Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
- 2000 - 2004 Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fields of Scholarship
- Iranian epigraphy
- Epic and oral traditions
- Old and Middle Iranian philology
- Ancient Iranian religions
- Early New Persian epic poetry and prose
- Greek historiography; Hellenistic and Late Antique worlds
- Islamic historiography
- Achaemenid, Arsacid, Seleucid, and Sasanian history
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Invited Conférencier for the 10èmes Conférences d’Études iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater at the Collège de France (November 2020)
- 2018 Pourdavoud Endowed Direrctor's Chair at UCLA
- 2013 - 2014 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
- 2012 Ehsan Yarshater Book Award (for Arsacids and Sasanians, Cambridge UP, 2011) by the International Society for Iranian Studies
- 2002 Harvard University William F. Milton Research Fund Award
- 2000 - 2004 Harvard Society of Fellows
