People

Faculty

Ahmad Atif Ahmad
  • Professor
aahmad@religion.ucsb.edu
https://www.religion.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/ahmad-atif-ahma…
Kevin B. Anderson
Kevin Anderson
  • Professor
  • Social and Political Theory Sociology of the Modern Middle East and Iran
kanderson@soc.ucsb.edu
  • 805-893-3118
http://www.kevin-anderson.com
Juan Campo
Juan Campo
  • Associate Professor
jcampo@religion.ucsb.edu
  • FAX: 805-893-2059
Adrienne Edgar
  • Associate Professor

Russian and Soviet History, Modern Central Asia, Nations and Nationalism, Women and Gender

edgar@history.ucsb.edu
Aazam Feiz
Aazam Feiz
  • Lecturer
afeiz@religion.ucsb.edu
Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
  • Assistant Professor
vhtroyansky@ucsb.edu
https://www.vladimirhamedtroyansky.com/
John W.I. Lee
John W.I. Lee
  • 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.

jwilee@history.ucsb.edu
Scott Marcus
Scott Marcus
  • Professor

North Indian and Middle Eastern musics and performance practices, Arab music theory (maqam), North Indian folk music; tuning and temperament.

smarcus@music.ucsb.edu
Bahram Osqueezadah
Bahram Osqueezadeh
  • Professor
b.zadeh@gmail.com
Adam Sabra
Adam Sabra
  • 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.

asabra@history.ucsb.edu
https://ucsb.academia.edu/AdamSabra
Sherene Seikaly
Sherene Seikaly
  • Associate Professor
sseikaly@history.ucsb.edu

Graduate Students

Kassra Amidi
  • Graduate Student
Ali Derafshi
  • Graduate Student
Marzieh Gahvarband
  • Graduate Student
Fatemeh (Tima) Kameli
  • Graduate Student
Ashkon Molaei
  • Graduate Student
Richard Nedjat-Haiem
  • Graduate Student

Visiting Scholars

Haleh Emrani
  • 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).

Sarp Kurgan
  • Visiting Scholar
Pardis Minuchehr
  • Visiting Scholar

Academic Personnel

Shiva Balaghi
  • 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