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Parvaneh Pourshariati is an Iranian-born American historian of Middle Eastern studies, scholar, and educator. She is an Associate Professor of History at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), and former president of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies. She specializes in the late antique, early medieval and modern histories of Iran and the Middle East.

Biography edit

Pourshariati was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1959. She received her master's degree from New York University (NYU) and her PhD from Columbia University.^[1] According to her profile page at CUNY, her research "focuses on the social and cultural history and interconnections of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia".^[1]

She is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Persianate Studies^[2] and Iran Namag.^[3]

In 2006, in memory of her father, the late Houshang Pourshariati, Pourshariati established the bi-annual Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award, which has been administered through the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), ever since.

Pourshariati was a visiting fellow at Princeton University in Summer 2013 and a visiting scholar at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012.^[4] In 2015 to 2016 she was a visiting research scholar at New York University.^[4] From 2000 to 2014 she served in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at The Ohio State University.^[1]^[4]

Works edit

Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran.^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8]

References edit

^ ^a ^b ^c "Parvaneh Pourshariati". Citytech.cuny.edu. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
^ "JPS". www.persianatesocieties.org. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
^ "IranNamag". www.irannamag.com. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Parvaneh Pourshariati". Isaw.nyu.edu. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
^ Rezakhani, Khodadad (2011). "Review of Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian—Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran". Iranian Studies. 44 (3): 415–419. doi:10.1080/00210862.2011.556396. ISSN 0021-0862. JSTOR 23033264. S2CID 161593702.
^ Greatrex, Geoffrey (2010-10-01). "Pourshariati, Parvaneh, Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran". Speculum. 85 (4): 1009–1010. doi:10.1017/S0038713410002472. ISSN 0038-7134.
^ Daryaee, Touraj (2010-01-01). "The Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Arab Muslims: From Two Centuries of Silence to Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: the Partho-Sasanian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran". Journal of Persianate Studies. 3 (2): 239–254. doi:10.1163/187471610X537280. ISSN 1874-7167.
^ Lucas, Noemie (2021). "Parvaneh Pourshariati, Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran". Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques. 35. doi:10.1017/S0038713410002472.