Nicholas John Sims-Williams#
| Membership Number: | 3297 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CLASSICS & ORIENTAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff31817.php |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 - 2007, 2012 - present Research Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London
- 2008 - 2011 Professorial Researcher, SOAS, University of London
- 1994 Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London
- 1989 Reader in Iranian Studies, SOAS, University of London
- 1976 Lecturer in Iranian Languages, SOAS, University of London
- 1975 Research Fellow, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Iranian studies
- Sogdian language
- Bactrian language
- Ancient Central Asia
- Central Asiatic languages
- Central Asiatic scripts
- Philology and textology
- Palaeography and decipherment
- Christianity in Central Asia
- Manichaeism in Central Asia
Honours and Awards
- 2011 Honorary Member, American Oriental Society
- 2010 Chairman, The Ancient India and Iran Trust, Cambridge
- 2010 Vice-President, Union Académique Internationale, Brussels
- 2010 Senior Fellow, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York
- 2009 "Book of the Year Prize" of the Islamic Republic of Iran
- 2009 "Exegisti Monumenta. Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams", Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 596 pp.
- 2003 President of the Philological Society
- 2002 Associé Étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, Institut de France
- 2002 Chairman of the Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum
- 2002 Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship
- 2001 Visiting Professor, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
- 2000 Ehsan Yarshater Distinguished Lectures on Iranian Studies, Harvard University
- 1999 Visiting Professor, Collège de France
- 1998 Visiting Professor, Macquarie University, Sydney
- 1997 Hirayama prize for Silk Road Studies
- 1992 British Academy Research Readership
- 1990 Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Corresponding Member of the Istituto Italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente
- 1988 Fellow of the British Academy
- 1988 Prix Ghirshman, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
