Beatrice Forbes Manz
Beatrice Forbes Manz is an American historian of the Middle East and Central Asia who specializes in nomads and the Timurid dynasty. She currently works as a professor of history at Tufts University. Her 1989 book "The Rise and Rule of Tamerlane" is considered one of the most authoritative accounts of the career of the conqueror Timur. She received a bachelor's from Harvard University in 1970 and a master's in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Michigan in 1974, then returned to Harvard for a doctorate in Inner Asian and Altaic studies which she  received in 1983. She is a fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society and, , president of the American Institute of Iranian Studies. She is the child of William H. Forbes and the well-known endocrinologist Anne Pappenheimer Forbes. Her publications include: Beatrice Manz speaks French, German, Russian, Persian, some Turkish, and Arabic.