Theodore (Theo for short) is a Persian and Arabic philologist, currently working as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project AnonymClassic at Freie Universität Berlin. He recently earned his PhD at the University of Chicago, with a dissertation focusing on Persian literary history in the early Safavid period.
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
13th-18th Centuries
Arabic
Central Asian Studies
Gulf Studies
Historiography
Iranian Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Mughal Studies
Music
Persian
South Asian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Afghanistan
Central Asia
Iran
Oman
Specialties
Classical Persian Literature
Iranian History
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
Persian (fluent)
French (intermediate)
German (advanced)
Latin (intermediate)
English (native)
Turkish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 2020
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| University of Chicago
MA
| 2013
| Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
| University of Chicago
BA
| 2009
| Near Eastern Studies
| Princeton University
