EDUCATION                        

2010 Department of History, UCLA
PhD in History
Dissertation: Empires and Micro-Systems: Late Antique Economy of West Asia, 500-750 CE.
Committee Members: Michael G. Morony (Chair), Claudia Rapp, Patrick Geary, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Susan Downey.

2002: London School of Economics, UK
MSc Global History
Dissertation: Useful Knowledge in Mediaeval World of Islam. Supervisor: Patrick K. O’Brien

1999: Texas A&M University, USA
BA International Studies and History

EXPERIENCE                      

2010-present: Dept. Of Economic History, LSE, UK
Research Officer, Islamic Central and West Asia

2009: Numismatische Kommission, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna                   
Visiting Research Scholar

2005-present: Sasanika Project, UC Irvine
Project Manager: Art and Archaeology

2005-2008: Dept. of History, UCLA
Teaching Fellow (Western Civilization 1&2, World History 1&2, Byztine History, German, German Culture)

2005-2007 Santa Monica College, CA
Adjunct Professor (Western Civilization, Middle Eastern Civilization, Persian)                                         

LANGUAGES                            

Modern
Persian: Native
English: Fluent, Near Native
German: advanced knowledge.
Arabic, French & Swedish: intermediate speaking, advanced reading knowledge

PERSONAL                                

Born: August 1976, Tehran, Iran
Citizenship: Iranian and USA

AWARDS                              

2009-2010 History Advisory Council/Shapiro Dissertation Year Fellowship

2009: UCLA International Institute, Fieldwork Fellowship

2008-2009: UCLA Graduate Division Pre-Dissertation Fellowship.

MEMBERSHIPS                  

American Historical Association
Association for the Study of Persianate Societies
American Oriental Society
Societas Iranologica Europea
Middle Eastern Studies Association
Society for Global History
California World History Group
California Medieval Association

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
 
Books

Daryaee, Touraj, Khodadad Rezakhani and Ali Mousavi (eds.), Excavating an Empire:
Achaemenid Persian in Long Duree, Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda, 2011 (forthcoming)

Schindel, Nikolaus and Khodadad Rezakhani. Syllogue Nummorum Sasanidarum
Tübingen, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences, 2011 (forthcoming).

Daryaee, T., K. Rezakhani and M. Compareti. Iranians on the Silk Road: Merchants,
Kingdoms, and Religions. Beverley Hills: Afshar Press, 2010

Articles

Rezakhani, K. and Ting Xu, “Reorienting the Discovery Machine: Perspectives from
China and Islamdom on Toby Huff’s Intellectual Curiosity and the Scientific
Revolution,” Journal of World History, 2011 (forthcoming).

“The Road That Never Was: Silk Road and the Trans-Eurasian Trade”
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and Middle East, 30.2 (2011)

“Balkh and the Sasanians: the Economy and Society of Northern Afghanistan as
Reflected in the Bactrian Economic Documents,” in Maria Macuch, Dieter Weber,
and Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst (eds.) Ancient and Middle Iranian Studies,
Proceedings of the 6th European Conference of Iranian Studies, held in Vienna, 18-22
September 2007, 191-204, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2010.

“Caliphs, Kings, and Khans: Tenth Century Diplomacy in the Rihlah of Ibn Fadlan,”
A. Shahpur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, ed. K. Abdi, 2011 (forthcoming).

“The “Unbekannter König III” and the Coinage of Hellenistic and Arsacid Persis,”
International Journal of Iranian Studies (NIB), 15, (2010).

“Arsacid Genealogy: a Reassessment,” Iranian Journal of History and Archaeology,
Summer 2010.

Rezakhani, K & T. Daryaee. “The Achaemenid Empire in the Context of World
History (550-330 BCE),” in Excavating an Empire: the Persian Longue Durée, ed.
T. Daryaee et. al, Costa Mesa: Mazda Publishers,(forthcoming 2011).

Daryaee, Touraj & K. Rezakhani “Administrative Divisions of Ancient Iran,” Rahavard 87 (2009).

“Menander Protector: Fragments 6.1-3 with commentary,” Sasanika, 2008.

“Bactrian Economic Documents and Their Importance for the Economic History of
Sasanian Iran”, e-Sasanika 3, 2008.

“Faking Yazdgerd,” Iranian, January 2005

Encyclopaedia Entries

“Khuzestan iv. Sasanian Period,” in Encyclopaedia Iranica, 2011 (Forthcoming).

“Jazeera,” contribution to A Short Encyclopedia of Islam, Rutgers University Press,
2008.

“Odovacar,” Encyclopaedia of World History, 2007.

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

Reviews

“Parvaneh Pourshariati: Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire,” Iranian Studies, 2011.

“Michael Alram: Ein Schatzfund Hephtalitischer Drachmen aus Baktrien,” Abstracta Iranica, Spring 2011.

“Derek Kennet and Paul Luft: Recent Studies in Sasanian History and Archaeology,” Iranian Journal of Archaeology and History, 2011.

“Translation of J. Wiesehofer’s ‘die Dunkelen Jahrhunderte Persiens’,” NIB, 15, 2009.

“Iranian Studies from Across the World,” Bukhara 71, October 2009.

“Engelbert Winter and Beate Dignas: Iran und das Perserreich,” NIB 13-14, 2009.

“Manijeh Abka‘i-Khavari: Das Bild des Königs in der Sasanidenzeit: Schriftliche
Überlieferungen im Vergleich mit Antiquaria”, Iranian Journal of History and
Archaeology, 2008.

“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

“Institutionalisation of Higher Education Under the Timurids,” European Congress of
World and Global History (ENIUGH), April 2011, London, UK.

“Prosopography of the Sasanian and Early Islamic Empires”, Seventh Biennial
Conference of Iranian Studies, Los Angeles, May 2010.

“Empires and Micro-system: Late Antique Economy and Economic Boundaries,”
MESA Conference, November 2009, Boston, MA.

“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

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