Khodadad Rezakhani
PhD (July 2010), Late Antique Near East
Fax: 310-206-7833
E-mail:
khodadad@ucla.edu
Field
Near Eastern History, Global history, Late Antique history, Near Eastern Archaeology and Ancient Iranian Languages
Research Interests
World History, Late Antique Near Eastern history, Sasanian history, economic history, agriculture and commerce, numismatics, Middle Iranian languages.
Publications
"Review: Rom und das Perserreich", in Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, vol. 13-14 (Forthcoming 2009).
"Revising the Early Arsacid Genealogy", A. Shahpur Shahbazi Memorial Volume, ed. Kamyar Abdi, (forthcoming)
Chapter on "The Parthian Empire" in Facts-on-File: Great Empires (forthcoming)
"Prussians", Online Supplement to Lexikon des Mittelalters, April 2006
"Tirdad and Ardavan: A New Look at the Genealogy of the Early Arsacids", Farhang, 2005
Review of: ?Jozef Wolski: L?Empire des Arsacides,? Nameye Iran-e Bastan, Issue 7, Summer 2005
?Jazeera,? contribution to A Short Encyclopedia of Islam, Rutgers University Press, March 2006 (forthcoming)
Grants and Awards
2008-2009: Department of History Pre-Dissertation Fellowship
2008: Department of History Summer Travel Award
2008-2009: Department of German Teaching Fellow
2006-2007 Summer Research Mentorship Award
2005-2007: Department of History Teaching Assistant and Teaching Associate
2005 Summer Research Award, Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity
Advisors
Profs. Michael G. Morony (chair), Claudia Rapp, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Patrick Geary, and Susan Downey
Conference Presentations
"The Road that Never Was: Silk Road and the Pre-Modern Trans-Eurasian Commerce," World History Colloquium, Dept. of History, UCLA, 3 November 2008.
"Economic History of Bactria", Sixth Conference of the European Society of Iranian Studies, Sept. 19-22, 2007, Vienna, Austria
"Mazdakite Revolt and the Sasanian Succession" VI International Conference of Iranian Studies, London, August 3-5, 2006
"Pre-Bardia Religion of the Achaemenids: Some observations from the Behistun Inscription," CSU Fullerton Colloquium on Ancient Persia, March 2006
"Sexual Communism: A New Look at the Rebellion of Mazdak" 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
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