Khodadad Rezakhani
PhD Candidate, Late Antique Near Eastern History
Department of History, Bunche Hall
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
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