Our People

Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Trento

Formerly Curator and Assistant Keeper, Islamic Collections, British Museum

Lecturer in Greek and Near Eastern History, King’s College London

Associate Professor of International History, London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor of Iranian History, Univerity of St Andrews

Artist and photographer

Assistant Professor in the Eastern Islamic Lands and Persian-Speaking World, University of Cambridge

Senior Lecturer in the Modern History of Iran, University of Exeter

Professor of the Arts of Iran and Islam, Courtauld Institute of Art

Philanthropist, Orthodontist, and Scholar

Professor of Persian Studies, New Sorbonne University

Formerly Associate Professor in Early Modern Asian Empires, Royal Holloway, University of London

Independent Scholar and Senior Research Associate, University College London

Formerly Iran Heritage Foundation Curator for the Iranian Collections, Victoria and Albert Museum

Former Keeper, Middle East Department, British Museum

Curator of Middle Eastern Coins, British Museum

Head of Near and Middle Eastern Department, Cambridge University Library

Senior Lecturer in Persian Studies, SOAS, University of London

Formerly Visiting Professor, University of Reading

Associate in Persian Language and Culture, University of Cambridge

Lecturer in Film Practice, Lancaster University

Convenor, Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art, SOAS, University of London

Director of the Silk Roads Programme, King’s College, University of Cambridge

Reader in Medieval History, University of St Andrews

Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Edinburgh

Professor of Ancient History, University of St Andrews

Emerita Professor of Islamic History, Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art, Universities of St Andrews and Edinburgh

Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London

Associate Professor in International Relations, University of Plymouth

Vice Dean and Executive Director, Mahatma Gandhi Centre for Peace Studies, O.P. Jindal Global University

Emeritus Professor of Persian Language, Literature, and Cultures, University of Maryland

Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Bamberg

Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Early-Career Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge

Founding Director, Golha and Golistan Projects

Iran Heritage Foundation Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Persian and Sufi Literature, University of Exeter

Professor of Ancient History, Cardiff University

Emeritus Professor of Islamic Studies, Modern History, and Turcology, Durham University

Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Reading

Emeritus Professor of Persian History, University of Cambridge

Director of Research, Pembroke Shahnama Centre for Persian Studies, University of Cambridge

Associate Professor in Economics and Policy, University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Emeritus Professor of History and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Associate Lecturer in Persian, University of St Andrews

Professor of Islamic Studies and Persian, University of Edinburgh

Assistant Professor of Operations Management, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Professor of Music, City, University of London

Professor of Cinema and Iran, University of Edinburgh

Professor of Middle East Studies, University of St Andrews

Fellow in Politics and International Relations, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge

Former Associate Professor of Islamic History, University of Oxford

Reader in South Asian and Iranian Archaeology, University of Cambridge

Curator of Islamic and Contemporary Middle East Art, British Museum

Emeritus Professor of Assyriology, University of Cambridge

Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, University of St Andrews

Reader in Islamic Studies, University of Glasgow

Ali Reza and Mohamed Soudavar Professor of Persian Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge

Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London

Lead Curator, Persian Collections, British Library

Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge

Emerita Professor of Global Media and Communication Studies, SOAS, University of London

Shapoorji Pallonji Senior Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, SOAS, University of London

Formerly Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art, University of St Andrews

Lecturer in Persian Literature and Culture, University of St Andrews

Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Religion, University of Manchester

Professor of Silk Roads Archaeology, University College London