He is a Professor of Iranian and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at UCLA, holding the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Chair in Iranian Studies. He is the founding director of the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World (2017), the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions (2023), and also chairs the governance board of the Global Antiquity Institute (2020). He earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University and was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows before joining UCLA. His scholarship focuses on ancient Iran, the Arsacid and Sasanian empires, and their political ideologies in the post‑Hellenistic and late antique world.
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