Touraj Daryaee (Persian: تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.[1]
Touraj Daryaee
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Daryaee in 2011
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| Born | 1967 (age 56–57) |
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| Alma mater | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Thesis | The Fall of the Sāsānian Empire and the End of Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change in the Province of Persis (1999) |
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| Discipline | Iranology |
| Institutions | University of California, Irvine École pratique des hautes études California State University, Fullerton |
| Main interests | Ancient/Medieval Iranian History Iranian languages and literature Zoroastrianism Numismatics |
Daryaee completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. He then completed a PhD in history at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He has taught at UCLA, and has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University and resident fellow at the École pratique des hautes études. He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia.[2]
He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, DABIR: Digital Ar,[2] as well as the director of Sasanika Project, a project on the history and culture of Sasanians.[3] His most famous publications include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire. He has also edited a book on Iranian history from the prehistoric era to modern history.[4]
Daryaee is the author of a number of historical publications. His book, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, in 2010 received multiple awards by BRISMES and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies.[5]