Matthew Canepa
matthew.canepa@uci.edu
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Elahe Omidyar Mir-Djali Presidential Chair 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 (New faculty member joining UCI Winter 2024)
Touraj Daryaee
tdaryaee@uci.edu
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UCI Endowed Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and Professor of History
Interests: Religious Studies (Iran, Zoroastrianism, Ancient Medieval World)
Alka Patel
alkap@uci.edu
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Professor of Art History
Interests: History; Religious Studies;, Visual Studies (South Asian and Islamic art and architecture, historiographies, Islamic diasporas in Cuba)
Ian Straughn
ian.straughn@uci.edu
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Assistant Professor of Teaching of Anthropology
Interests: Religious Studies