Matthew Canepa
matthew.canepa@uci.edu
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Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair of Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran and Professor of Art History
Interests: Art and Archaeology of Persia and the Ancient Iranian World; Achaemenid, Seleucid, Arsacid, Sasanian empires; Hellenistic Iran and Central Asia; Eurasian late antiquity; cross-cultural interaction; critical theory
Ferdowsi Presidential Chair in Zoroastrian Studies and Professor of Classics.
Interests: Zoroastrianism from antiquity to the present day; ancient Iranian philology (Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian).
Touraj Daryaee
tdaryaee@uci.edu
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Masseh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of History
Interests: Sasanian history
Alka Patel
alkap@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History
Interests: Islamic Art (Medieval Iran and Persianate South and Central Asian art and architecture, historiographies)
Ian Straughn
ian.straughn@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of Teaching of Anthropology
Interests: Religious Studies