Rahim Shayegan - Curriculum Vitae#

• 2018 - present Pourdavoud Endowed Direrctor’s Chair
  
• 2017 - present Director, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, Division of Humanities, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  
• 2013/14 - 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
  
• July 2004 - 2009 Musa Sabi Term Chair of Iranian Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  
• Winter 2003 Visiting Professor of Iranian, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  
• 2000 - 2002/ Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. 2003 - 2004
  

• Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  
• PhD. Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations.
  Fields: Iranian Philology, Ancient History.
  Thesis: “Aspects of Early Sasanian History and Historiography.”
  
• Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany
  Graduate Work. Seminar für Iranistik.
  Fields: Old Iranian Philology.
  
• Université de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
  MA. Institut des Études Iraniennes.
  Fields: Old Iranian Philology, Ancient History.
  Thesis: “Bardiya, Gaumāta et la politisation du sacerdoce au VIe s. av. J.-C.”
  
• Albertus-Magnus-Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany
  BA.
  Fields: Philosophy, Comparative Philology, History.
  Thesis: “Die wesentlichen Bestimmungen der Substanz und des phänomenalen Seins in Leibnizens Monadologie.”

• Conférencier for 10èmes Conférences d’Études iraniennes Ehsan et Latifeh Yarshater au Collège de France.
  
• John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow (2013–2014).
  
• Ehsan Yarshater Book Award (for Arsacids and Sasanians, Cambridge UP, 2011) by the International Society for Iranian Studies (2012).
  
• UCLA Faculty Career Development Award (2008–2009).
  
• Harvard University William F. Milton Research Fund (2002; funds were utilized in the Fall 2002 to take silicone imprints and digital photographs from the entire Sasanian epigraphic corpus in Iran).