People
Faculty
- Professor
- Professor
- Social and Political Theory Sociology of the Modern Middle East and Iran
- Associate Professor
Russian and Soviet History, Modern Central Asia, Nations and Nationalism, Women and Gender
- Assistant Professor
- Professor
I currently chair the UCSB Ancient Mediterranean Studies Ph.D. Emphasis, and am co-organizer of the Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group. Visit the AMS web site to learn more.
- Professor
North Indian and Middle Eastern musics and performance practices, Arab music theory (maqam), North Indian folk music; tuning and temperament.
- Professor
My teaching and research focus on the Middle East, especially Egypt, in the medieval and early modern periods. I am particularly interested in the social and cultural history of Cairo. Having previously studied the poor of medieval Cairo, I am currently working on aristocratic families in the period 1500 – 1800. Other areas of interest include legal history and Islamic mysticism.
Graduate Students
Visiting Scholars
- Associate Editor
Haleh Emrani has a Ph.D. in Sasanian Social History from UCLA. Her research focuses on gender relations across the many religious groups of Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iran, with an emphasis on legal regulations governing marriage, divorce, guardianship of women and their children, and inheritance. Emrani was director of Sasanika, a portal dedicated to the study of Late Antique Iran (2003 -2019).
Academic Personnel
- Academic coordinator of the Area Global Initiative
- East Asia Center
- Center for Middle East Studies
- and Latin America and Iberian Studies
Iranian Studies Internship Alumni
2024-2025
- Neala Ashaari
- Vanessa Rosales
- Evan Floisand
- Sebastian Gan
- Shushan Onanyan
2023-2024
- Zeena Hamed
- Nikou Kangarloo-Foroutan
- Nadia Lie
- Rory Lowdermilk
- Ainaz Moghni
- Joanna Rangel Dominguez
- Armin Mehrabi
- Neda Riaziat
- Ben Shlemis
- Aaliyah Villarete
- Romina Arasteh
- Nicole Leick
- Emma Rathjen
- Neda Riaziat
- Aaliyah Villarete
2022- 2023
- Runhan Zhou
- Charlotte Swenberg
- Isabel Tobia
- Tara Shafazand
- Eva Yang
- Isabella Leary
- Nicole (Nikki) Leick
2021- 2022
- Isabel Tobia
- Leila Shahidi
- Tara Shafazand
- Sohpia Siadatpour
- Maddy Foote
- Runhan Zhou
2020-2021
- Carley Weiler
- Charlie Chapman
- Christine Wang
- Gigi Jackson
- Kimi Nasiri
- Madeleine Simmons
- Maya Dao
- Myah Mashhadialireza
- Olivia Olds
- Pablo Ruiz Tobaruela
- Sydney Nguyen
- Yilin Cao
- Michael Zargari
- Romtin Toranji
- Jonathan Lebo
- Yasi Asgari
- Ryan Barani
- Tania Abbaszadeh
- Melina Gharibian
- Ella Luchtel
- Alma Javidi
- Sintia Paryav
- Ida Kazerani
2019-2020
- Alya Ruiz
- Alyssa Afram
- Arya Hadidi-tamjed
- Teresa Imaya Bengtsson
- Marion Pochard
2018-2019
- Shirin Assadian
- Taylor Jackson
- Veronica Blevins
- Katherine Reall
- Miles Markstein
- Jess Leeds
- Rose Kennedy
- Arad Rahimi
- Elora Cohen
- Taryna Hollinger
- Lori Moses
- Elena Torabi
- Jessica Tucker
- Sabrina Bigverdi
- Martin Gilbert
2017-2018
- Andrew Delvasto
- Elena Torabi
- Jasmeen Chauhan
- Jasmine Khamenian
- Kate Ghodoosian
- Kirsten Bejarano
- Kyle Bates
- Maya Garabedian
- Miles Daniel Markstein
- Rachel A. Gregory
- Veronica Blevins
2016-2017
- Amell, Ashley
- Assadi, Sahand Mir
- Bates, Kyle
- Boudames, Tanios
- Freedman, Evyn
- Ganjali, Arian
- Govargiz, Damoun
- Hubert, Zhang
- Johnson, Brittney
- Kahsu, Rosalyn
- Marty, Aysha
- Mazdisnian, Neda
- Napier, Jordyn
- Nurafkan, Bashir
- Woods, Mariah
2015-2016
- Ganjali, Aria
- Arzani, Ariana
- Mahoney, Kaitlin
- Hoang, Maria
- Aoun, Michelle
- Khashayar, Mozaffari
- Mehrdad, Natasha
- Enayat, Shirin
2014-2015
- Samira Seraji
- Van Noy, Nicole
- Borhani, Ramin
- Seyf, Sadaf
- Baker, Sonia
- Preea, Zareena