Pooriya Alimoradi is a PhD student at the department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilization at University of Toronto. He holds an M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Religion from Concordia University and another M.A. in Ancient Iranian History from University of Tehran. He has also been working on ancient Iranian languages such as Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Parthian and Manichean since 2000. He is interested in Iranian history, languages and culture in the late antiquity, religions of ancient Iran including Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism and Mazdakism as well as the study of Zoroastrianism in the early centuries of Islam in Iran. He is a recipient of the “Houtan Scholarship” (2013), “Soudavar Memorial Foundation Travel Grant” (2013), “Concordia University Conference and Exposition Award” (2013), “Concordia University, Faculty of Arts and Science student conference travel support” (2013), “Houtan Scholarship” (2012), “Concordia University Merit Scholarship” (2011) and “Concordia University International Tuition Fee Remission Award” (2011). Additionally, he is a former editorial and webmaster of the Bulletin of Ancient Iranian History (BAIH), former editorial of a couple of advertising magazines and numerous students’ magazines. As of December 2011, Pooriya Alimoradi is the webmaster of persianatesocieties.org. He, alongside a team of programmers, was responsible for overhauling the old version of the ASPS website and re-designed it. As of December 2012, he is the student member of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS).

History

Middle East/Near East Studies

Iranian Studies

Iran

Persian (native)

English (advanced)

French (intermediate)