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ELECTIONS: Thanks for making our Seventh OFFICE OF SECRETARY ! CANDIDATE’S BIOS ! ! CANDIDATE ! OFFICE OF VICE-PRESIDENT Ghazzal Dabiri holds a Ph.D. in Iranian Studies ! in the Department of CANDIDATE Near Eastern Languages ! a n d C u l t u r e s f r o m Rudi Matthee received UCLA. She is currently a his Ph.D. in Islamic post-doctoral fellow at S t u d i e s f r o m t h e Ghent and has University of California, taught at Columbia Los Angles. Since 1993 University, where she was also Persian Studies he has been teaching at program coordinator, UCLA, and CSUF. Her the University of research focuses on the development of and Delaware, where he is cross-sections between Iranian historiography Distinguished of Middle Eastern and Persian epics as well as on the social History. Matthee has published widely on history of early Islamic . Based on this, she Safavid and Qajar Iran as well as Egypt. He has published the following articles: “Visions authored The Politics of Trade in Safavid of Heaven and Hell from Late Antiquity in the Iran: Silk for Silver, 1600-1730 (1999), Near East” (2009); “The Shahnama: Between recipient of the prize for best non-Persian the Samanids and Ghaznavids” (2010), and language book on Iranian history awarded by “Historiography and the Sho’ubiya Movement” the Iranian Ministry of Culture; honorable (2013). mention for British-Kuwaiti Friendship Prize; The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and ! Other publications include: “The Mother Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900 Tongue: An Introduction to the Persian (2005), recipient of the Albert Hourani Book Language.” PBS Frontline: Bureau Prize and the Saidi Sirjani Prize; Persia in and ;“Shiraz Nights.” PBS Frontline: Tehran Crisis: Safavid Decline and the Fall of Isfahan Bureau, August 10, 2009. She is currently (2012), recipient of the British-Kuwaiti working on a book project entitled “Kings as Friendship Prize and the Jayezeh-ye jahani-ye Moral and Heroic Types in Early Islamic ketab awarded by the Iranian Ministry of Historiography and Persian Epics,” which was Culture; and, with Willem Floor and Patrick the subject of her dissertation, “The Origins Clawson, The Monetary History of Iran, and Development of Persian Epics” which 1500-1925 (2013), recipient of the Houchang won Honorable Mention for Best Dissertation Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award. He from the Foundation for Iranian Studies in also coedited three volumes. He is the former 2007. She was a recipient of a Fulbright president (2002-05 and 2008-11) of ASPS; Research Grant for the 2011-2012 academic served as book review editor for Iranian year. She has served ASPS as Newsletter Editor Studies; is coeditor of Der Islam, and a (2009-2015), Biennial Conference Organizing consulting editor for the Encyclopaedia Committee Member (2013/2015), and Iranica. In 2002-03 he was a fellow at the currently sits on the Board of Directors. !Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton. ! 2

OFFICE OF TREASURER Arthur Dudney joined the ! Faculty of Asian and CANDIDATES Middle Eastern Studies, ! University of Cambridge as Daniel Beben a Leverhulme Early Career received his PhD in Fellow last September. His History and Central current project, “Making Persianate People: Histories Eurasian Studies from of Literary Indiana University in Beyond Iran,” considers how literary Persian 2015. He is currently was spread and maintained in the vast region an Assistant Professor where it had cultural currency but was not a of History at mother tongue. Previously he was at the Nazarbayev University, Republic of as a Mellon Postdoctoral Kazakhstan. His research and teaching focuses Fellow, where he researched Persian on the history of Central Asia and the dictionaries and philological works as sources Persianate world, with a particular focus on the for intellectual and social history in pre- history of religious communities. He has won colonial Persianate India. He received his PhD a number of grants and awards, including from the Department of Middle Eastern, dissertation research fellowships from the South Asian and African Studies (MESAAS) at Columbia University in 2013. He conducted Social Science Research Council (SSRC), field research at Indian archives with the American Councils (ACTR) and IREX. Daniel support of a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral served for three years as President of the Dissertation Research Abroad grant. Association of Central Eurasian Students and ! as the chair of the annual Conference on His dissertation, to be published by Oxford Central Eurasian Studies at Indiana University, University Press, is “A Desire for Meaning: for which he was responsible for coordinating Ḳhān-i Ārzū’s Philology and the Place of India fundraising efforts from multiple sources. He in the Eighteenth-Century Persianate World.” has been a member of ASPS since 2011. In May of this year, he organized the Symposium on Literature and History in ! Persianate South Asia at Oxford with funding from Oxford University, the British Institute ! for Persian Studies, and the Iran Heritage ! Fund. As a student he organized Columbia’s first annual Interdisciplinary Graduate ! Conference on the Middle East, South Asia and Africa (April 2010) and convened the ! department’s graduate students’ forum. He ! recently published *Delhi: Pages from a Forgotten History*, a mass-market history of ! Persianate Culture in South Asia (Hay House Books, New Delhi). He is a member of the ! editorial board for *The Shiʿah Heritage of ! South Asia* series. ! 3

BOARD OF DIRECTORS history of Modern Iran and the Persianate World as well as the interface between CANDIDATES historiography, politics and cultural memory ! in contemporary Iran. He has spent nearly ! three years of his academic career living, joined studying and working in Iran. He was the The Courtauld Institute head of Manchester’s department of Middle of Art in 2013 to take up Eastern Studies between September 2008 and a newly established post September 2011. Bast spent the Academic teaching on the arts of Year 2011-2012 at Yale University as a Visiting Iran and Islam. Born in Fellow in Iranian Studies at Yale’s Whitney Iran, she attended the and Betty MacMillan Center for International 's and Area Studies. Faculty of Fine Arts Before joining the University of Manchester as (Graphic Design) until the revolution of 1979 a lecturer [Assistant Professor] in January 2000, when she moved to the USA where she Bast read History and Persian Studies in Berlin received her Master’s degree in Italian (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), in Tehran Renaissance and American Arts, and her PhD (University of Tehran), in Paris (Université de at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, with a la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3) and in focus on the arts of Islam. She has taught at Bamberg (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Smith College and the Bamberg). in America, and as the Allianz Visiting Bast holds a joint doctorate (thèse en co-tutelle) in Professor at Ludwig Maximilian University in Oriental Studies (specialisation: History) from Munich. Her publications include Persian the Sorbonne Nouvelle and Bamberg where he kingship and architecture: Strategies of power pursued his doctoral studies under the joint in Iran from the Achaemenids to the Pahlavis supervision of Bert G. Fragner and (2015), Shirin Neshat (2013), and Slaves of Yann Richard. In October 2012 he set up the Shah: New Elites of Safavid Iran (2004). (together with Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi) She is the author of the award-winning the Manchester Iranian History Academic Isfahan and its Palaces: Statecraft, Shi‘ism and Network (http://www.mihan.org.uk) at the the Architecture of Conviviality in Early University of Manchester. Since 2004, Bast has Modern Iran (2008). been serving on the Council of the British ! Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) ! and in July 2009 organised the 2009 Annual ! Conference of BRISMES at the University of Oliver Bast, Maître-ès- Manchester. In 2014 he was elected Executive Lettres, Dr. phil., is Director of BRISMES. In January 2009, he co- Senior Lecturer organised (with Dr Dominic Brookshaw) the [Associate Professor] in 10th Workshop of the British Institute of Middle Eastern History Persian Studies (BIPS), a - and Persian at the based learned society on whose Governing University of Council he has been serving as Honorary Manchester. Bast is a Secretary since 2013. In June 2006, Bast was historian of Modern co-organiser together with Professor Iran and his research Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar, of the 6th interests include the diplomatic and political Conference of the International Qajar Studies

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Association (IQSA) in Paris acting on behalf On the Wonders of Land and Sea: Persianate of the Unité mixte de recherché Mondes popular Travel Writing (2013). He has written Iranien et Indien of the Centre National de la numerous scholarly pieces and co-curated Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), to which Bast is several exhibitions at . His attached as a chercheur associé. Between 1995 research interests are in the areas of Persianate and 1997, Bast worked as an allocataire de literary and visual cultures, translation, and recherche at the Institut Français de Recherche en travel writing. He has served as board member Iran (IFRI) in Tehran, where in March 1997, of ASPS previously and is currently on the he organised an international conference on editorial board of JPS. Iran and World War I, which was held as a ! joint venture of IFRI and the Iranian Foreign Ministry’s Institute for Political and ! !International Studies (IPIS). Rose Wellman is ! currently a ! p o s t d o c t o r a l Sunil Sharma is Professor researcher at the o f P e r s i a n a t e & Sharmin and Bijan Comparative Literature at Mossavar-Rahmani Boston University, where Center for Iran and he previously served as Persian Gulf Studies at Princeton University chair of the Department who specializes in Iran and Persianate Societies of Modern Languages & in the Middle East and Central Asia. Between Comparative Literature. He 2007 and 2010, she conducted 15 months of received his Ph.D. from the ethnographic research in the Islamic Republic University of Chicago’s Department of Near of Iran, including 10 months in a small town Eastern Languages & Civilizations, during outside of Shiraz. She received her Ph.D. in which time he studied and traveled in Iran. He Anthropology from the University of Virginia has held fellowships at the in May 2014 and her B.A. in Anthropology Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Jawaharlal from Mount Holyoke College in 2005. Nehru Institute of Advanced Study (New ! Delhi), Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes Rose Wellman's current book project, (Paris), and been a visiting scholar at SOAS tentatively titled "Feeding Moral Relations: The (London). He was the Persian librarian at Making of Kinship and Nation in Iran," Harvard University’s Widener Library from examines the lives of provincial Iranian 1998-2003 and also taught for several years families with ties the Islamic Revolution and there. He is the author of two monographs: Iran-Iraq War (Basijis). This work adapts the anthropology of ethics, Islam, kinship, and Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier: Mas‘ūd Sa‘d food to explore the conjunctions of kinship Salmān of Lahore (2000), and Amir Khusraw: and nation-making at a granular, micro- The Poet of Sultans and Sufis (2005); two processual level. It contributes a much-needed, collaborative works: Atiya’s Journeys: A Muslim humanistic portrait of contemporary Shi¹i Woman from Colonial Bombay to Edwardian Britain Iranian sociality. For this project, Rose received (2010), and In the Bazaar of Love: The Selected fieldwork and write up support from the Poetry of Amir Khusrau (2011); and co-editor Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation, the of two volumes of essays, Necklace of the National Science Foundation, the Wenner- Pleiades: Studies in Persian Literature Presented to Gren, and the Iranian Heritage Foundation, Heshmat Moayyad on his 80th Birthday (2007), and

HTTP://WWW.PERSIANATESOCIETIES.ORG 6 among others. In addition to continuing to BOARD OF DIRECTORS conduct research in Iran, Rose is now setting STUDENT MEMBER the groundwork for a new project on kinship and genealogy in relation to pilgrimage ! CANDIDATE shrines in Tajikistan. ! ! Pooriya Alimoradi is a Rose¹s ethnographic research has led to 3rd year PhD student at several fruitful collaborative efforts. First, the Department of Near together with her colleagues Todne Thomas and Middle Eastern and Asiya Malik, she is co-editing a Civilization at University forthcoming book volume titled "The Sacred of Toronto, working on Social: Reconceptualizing Spiritual Kinship "Zoroastrian across the Abrahamic Religions." This book Apocalypticism based on has been positively reviewed and will be part the New Persian Version of Palgrave Macmillan¹s Contemporary Anthropology of Religion series. Second, of the Zand ī Wahman Yasn" under the Rose recently organized a major conference in supervision of Prof. Enrico Raffaelli. He holds the field of anthropology and Iran studies a master’s degree in History and Philosophy of entitled ³Ethnography of Iran: Past and Religion from Concordia University and Present.² This conference convened renowned another master’s degree in Ancient Iranian scholars who conducted research in the Iran History from University of Tehran. He is before the revolution with more junior interested in Iranian history, languages and scholars with the aim of exploring how culture in the Late Antiquity; religions of theoretical contributions specific to Iran can ancient Iran including Zoroastrianism, impact both the discipline of anthropology Manichaeism and Mazdakism; as well as the and our understandings of the Islamic study of Zoroastrianism in the early centuries Republic, including notions of , gender, of Islam in Iran. Since 2000, he has been personhood, Iranian ethnic diversity, and working on ancient Iranian languages including religious nation-making. Finally, in 2014, Rose Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Parthian received the distinguished Class of 1985 and Manichean. He is a recipient of the Fellowship for Creative Teaching Award at the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral University of Virginia. Scholarship (SSHRC 2015-18), “Houtan ! Scholarship” (2012 through 2015), “Soudavar ! Memorial Foundation Travel Grant” (2013), ! “Concordia University Conference and ! Exposition Award” (2013), “Concordia ! University, Faculty of Arts and Science student ! conference travel support” (2013), “Concordia ! University Merit Scholarship” (2011) and ! “Concordia University International Tuition ! Fee Remission Award” (2011). As of ! December 2012, he is the student member of ! the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies ! (ASPS). Since December 2011, Pooriya ! Alimoradi is the webmaster of ! www.persianatesocieties.org. He has served in ! ASPS 2013 Sarajevo and ASPS 2015 Istanbul

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conference organizing committees. thesis entitled, “Lithography, a Process of Furthermore, he is serving as ASPS acting Translation and the Object of the Book in treasurer in 2015. Additionally, he is the Islamic Art.” former Editor and webmaster of the Bulletin ! of Ancient Iranian History (BAIH), former Editor of a few advertising magazines and !several students’ magazines. ! ! ! Margaret Shortle is a Ph.D. Candidate at Boston University in the Department of Histor y of Ar t & A r c h i t e c t u r e a n d writing a dissertation entitled, “Illustrated Divans of Hafiz: Islamic Aesthetics at the Intersection of Art and Literature, 1450 – 1650.” Currently, she is a fellow with the research group Naturbilder/Images of Nature at the University of Hamburg, where she will examine questions of artistic creativity, aesthetics and materiality in the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Persian manuscripts as they relate to the natural world and a poetic conceptualization of nature. Margaret’s primary research interests include the intersections of Persian visual and literary arts and concepts of image making in the Persian world. Margaret previously worked as a research associate for the Emmy Noether- Nachwuchsgruppe, Kosmos/Ornatus. Ornamente in Persien und Frankreich um 1400 im Vergleich, at the Kunsthistorisches Institut, Free University in Berlin, and she has received additional support for her dissertation research from the American Research Institute in Turkey and Boston University’s Summer Travel Fellowship for graduate students, Boston University’s Center for the Humanities and Boston University’s Center for the Study of Muslim Societies and Civilizations. Margaret received her M.A. from the University of Chicago in Middle Eastern Studies with a

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