Khodadad Rezakhani

PhD Candidate, Late Antique Near Eastern History

Department of History, Bunche Hall

University of California, Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA

khodadad@ucla.edu


 

EDUCATION                         2004- University of California, LA, CA, USA

                                                            PhD candidate

                                                            dissertation title: "Empires and Micro-Systems: Sasanian Economy in Late Antiquity and Early Islam"

 

2002: London School of Economics, UK

                                                MSc Global History

 

                                                1999: Texas A&M University, USA

                                                            BA International Studies and History

 

EXPERIENCE                       2005- : Dept. of History/Dept. of Germanic Languages, UCLA

                                                            Teaching Assistant and Fellow (World History, Western Civilization, Elementary German, Literature

                                                            and Mediaeval German Courtly Culture)

                                               

                                                2005-2006: Santa Monica College, CA

                                                            Lecturer in history

 

2003/04: Hormachea & Matloob, Berk., CA

                                                            Legal Assistant

                                                           

                                               

LANGUAGES                              Modern

Persian: Native

                                                            English: Fluent

                                                            German: advance

                                                            Arabic, French & Swedish: Reading knowledge

                                                           

                                                            Ancient

                                                            Old and Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Parthian,

                                                            Sogdian, Elamite, Avestan, Old Norse

 

PERSONAL                                  Born: August 1976, Tehran, Iran

                                                            Citizenship: Iranian and USA

                                                           

SELECTED WORKS

 

Publications

 

“Arsacid Genealogy: A Reassessment”, A. Shapur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, ed.

K. Abdi (forthcoming)

 

“Jazeera,” contribution to A Short Encyclopedia of Islam, Rutgers

University Press, (forthcoming)

 

“The Parthian Empire”, Encyclopaedia of World Empires, Facts-On-File

(forthcoming June 2007)

 

“Prussians”, Brepols supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters, June 2006

 

“Tīrdād and Ardavān: A New Look at the Genealogy of Early

Arsacids,” Farhang: Philology Issue, Tehran, Iran, Summer 2005

 

“Faking Yazdgerd,” Iranian, January 2005

 

Reviews

 

“Touraj Daryaee: The Sasanian Empire”, Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History, Vol. I,

No. 2, Spring 2007.

 

“Jozef Wolski: L’Empire des Arsacides,” Nameye Iran-e Bastan, Issue 7,

Winter 2005 (printed Winter 2006).

 

Conference Presentations

 

“Economic History of Bactria in Late Antiquity”, presented at the Sixth Conference

of the Societas Iranologica Europea, Vienna, September 19-22, 2007.

 

“Mazdakite Rebellion and Sasanian Succession”, Sixth Biennial Conference of

Iranian Studies, London, August 2-5, 2006.

 

“Religion of Bardia: Some Suggestions based on Darius’ Inscriptions”, Colloquium

on Ancient Iran, CSU Fullerton, March 2006.

 

“Sexual Communism: A New Look at the Rebellion of Mazdak,” the 10th UCLA

Graduate Late Antiquity Conference, April 2005.

 

"Perso-centrism and the Iranian National Identity", V European Conference of Iranian Studies, Ravenna, Italy, October 2003.

 

Miscellaneous

 

Coordinator and organizer: Second Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity, UCLA, March 28-29, 2007

 

Author and editor of www.iranologie.com