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
Persian
Iranian Studies
Music
Arabic
Central Asian Studies
Gulf Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
South Asian Studies
13th-18th Centuries
Historiography
Mughal Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iran
Afghanistan
Oman
Central Asia
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
