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Faculty
Meet our Faculty
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Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak For 19 years Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak was professor of Persian language and literature and Iranian culture and civilization at the University of Washington. He has studied in Iran and the United States, receiving his Ph.D. in comparative literature from Rutgers University in 1979, and has taught English and comparative literature and translation studies, as well as classical and modern Persian literature at the University of Tehran, Rutgers University, Columbia University, and the University of Texas. Professor Karimi-Hakkak is the author of 19 books and over 100 major scholarly articles. He has contributed articles on Iran and Persian literature to many reference works, including The Encyclopedia Britannica, The Encyclopaedia Iranica, and The Encyclopedia of Translation Studies. His works have been translated into French, Dutch, Spanish, Russian, Greek, Arabic, Japanese, and Persian. He has won numerous awards and honors, and has served as president of the International Society for Iranian Studies and several other professional academic organizations. Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak is married and has two sons, Kusha Karimi and Kia Karimi. |
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Rudolph (“Rudi”) Matthee The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute has generously provided funding for a Chair in Persian Studies. Rudolph (“Rudi”) Matthee joins the Roshan Center as the first Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Chair in Persian Studies. Previously he served as the Unidel Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Delaware, where he taught Middle Eastern history, with a research focus on early modern Iran and the Persian Gulf. His books include The Politics of Trade in Safavid Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 1999); The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 (Princeton University Press, 2005); and the forthcoming Persia in Crisis: The Decline of the Safavids and the Fall of Isfahan. He co-edited, with Beth Baron, Iran and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Nikki R. Keddie (2000); and co-edited, with Nikki Keddie, Iran and the Surrounding World, 1501-2001: Interactions in Culture and Cultural Politics (2002). He has also published numerous articles on aspects of Safavid and Qajar Iran. He serves as president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, 2009-2011. He received the 2006 Albert Hourani Book Prize, awarded by the Middle East Studies Association of North America, and won the Saidi Sirjani Award, 2004-2005, awarded by the International Society for Iranian Studies. He received his Ph.D. in 1991 from the University of California, Los Angeles. |
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Ali Abasi Ali R. Abasi completed his Ph.D. in second language education at the University of Ottawa, Canada. His research interests include second language writing and adult learning. His recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Second Language Writing, English for Specific Purposes, Adult Basic Education and Literacy Journal, Australian Journal of Adult Learning, Literacy & Numeracy Studies: An International Journal, and Journal of English for Academic Purposes. |
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Delaram Soltani Delaram Soltani graduated from Azad University in Teheran/Iran in 1996 and received her BA degree in English Translation. Following her interest in teaching and linguistics, she continued her education in Teaching English as a Second Language, and obtained her MA degree in 2000 from Azad University in Tehran. She has been an English instructor, a course designer, and an educational quality controller in a number of language institutes in Tehran including; Kish, Ghotbe Ravandi, Gheshm, and the Iranian Medical University of Teheran. |
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