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name: Parvaneh Pourshariati
about: Parvaneh Pourshariati is Associate Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She also has courtesy appointments in the department of History at OSU and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) at the university, where she teaches regularly. Born in Tehran, where she completed her primary and secondary education, Pourshariati received her BA in sociology from New York University and her M. Phil. and PhD. degrees in history from Columbia University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia, in the late antique and medieval periods. Her general interests lie in cross-cultural Parvaneh Pourshariati is Associate Professor of Islamic and Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Ohio State University. She also has courtesy appointments in the department of History at OSU and the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CMRS) at the university, where she teaches regularly. Born in Tehran, where she completed her primary and secondary education, Pourshariati received her BA in sociology from New York University and her M. Phil. and PhD. degrees in history from Columbia University. Her research focuses on the social and cultural history of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia, in the late antique and medieval periods. Her general interests lie in cross-cultural and economic interconnections between the Mediterranean world, the Fertile Crescent and Arabia, and the Iranian oikoumene from the ancient to the late medieval periods. Greco-Iranian and Roman, Irano-Juadica, Perso-Islamica and Turko-Iranian worlds are part and parcel of this interest. Pourshariati is a member of Mondes iraniens et indiens of the CNRS in Paris, Board of Directors of the Association for the Study of the Persianate Societies (ASPS), the Academic Review Board of the Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History and editorial boar of the Persian journal, Iran Nameh. Currently at work on a number of book projects, including the sequel to her Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire (I.B. Tauris in 2008), Pourshariati's research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the American Association for University Women (AAUW) the American Numismatic Society (ANS), and the American Institute of Iranian Studies, among others. Closely collaborating with colleagues in Europe and the Middle East, her articles have appeared in various journals of the field. Pourshariati was instrumental in establishing the annual Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award through the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA) in memory of her father, the late Houshang Pourshariati ...more