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Ehsan Yarshater
Director, Center for Iranian Studies; Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies; Editor, Encyclopaedia Iranica
450 Riverside Drive, Suite 24
New York
,
NY
10027
Phone
work:
212-851-5723
fax:
212-749-9524
Email
ey4@columbia.edu
Office Hours
By appointment
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Professor Yarshater received his
Ph.D. in Persian language and literature from the University of Tehran (1947)
and then he studied with W. B. Henning at London University, from which he
received an M.A. and a Ph.D. degree in Old and Middle Iranian (1960).
He first came to Columbia in 1958
and was appointed to the Kevorkian Chair in 1961. He founded the Center for Iranian Studies in 1968.
Prof. Yarshater has authored and served as the editor of
numerous scholarly works. Among others he has authored Persian Poetry in the Second Half of the 15th Century (1953), Southern Tati Dialects (1970), and has
edited the third volume of Cambridge
History of Iran, in two parts, covering the Seleucid, Parthian and Sasanian
periods (1983,1986), and Highlights of
Persian Literature (1988). Professor
Yarshater founded the Encyclopaedia
Iranica in 1974 and he continues to edit it. He is the General Editor of the 40-volume Tabari Translation
Project, and the Founding Editor of the Persian Text Series, the Persian
Heritage Series, the Columbia Lectures in Iranian Studies, and the Persian
Studies Series.
Lecture series in his name have been instituted
at the University of London, and the University of California at Los
Angeles,
and at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique in Paris. In
addition to receiving the Georgio Levi Della Vida Medal for Achievement
in
Islamic Studies from UCLA in 1991, Professor Yarshater has been elected
honorary member of the International
Society for Iranian Studies, the Societas Europaeas Iranologica, and
the
Institute of Central and West Asian Studies in Pakistan.
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