Rahim Shayegan - Curriculum Vitae#
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- 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
EDUCATION
- 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.”
SELECT GRANTS AND AWARDS
- 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).