!!!Nicholas John Sims-Williams \\ %%(float:left;margin-left:20px;margin-right:30px;) [{Image src='sims_williams_nicholas.jpg' alt='Nicholas John Sims-Williams' height='200'}] %% [{AcadMemberDataPlugin}] \\ \\ \\ \\ __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__ [{AcadMemberFOScholarshipPlugin}] \\ __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 \\ %%columns-900 %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/paper_content_pencil_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Curriculum Vitae |User/Sims-Williams_Nicholas_John/CV] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/book_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Publication list|User/Sims-Williams_Nicholas_John/Publications] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/camera_noflash_48.png' width='48px' class='image_left'}] [Highlights of my work and anecdotes|User/Sims-Williams_Nicholas_John/Highlight] %% ---- %%coolborders-140-70 [{Image src='User/database_48.png' class='image_left'}] [Other information|User/Sims-Williams_Nicholas_John/OtherInformation] %% %% [{ALLOW view All}] [{ALLOW edit nsims-williams}] [{ALLOW upload nsims-williams}] [{ALLOW comment All}]