!!Rahim Shayegan - Curriculum Vitae
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__ACADEMIC POSITIONS__
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*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\\
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__EDUCATION__
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*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.”
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__SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS__
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*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).\\
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