Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina, Lecturer on Old Persian

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Professor Yuhan Vevaina
Semitic Museum
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138


617-495-5757
617-496-8904
vevaina@fas.harvard.edu


Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina received his M.A. in 2003 and his Ph.D. in 2007 from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University. After completing his doctoral work, Dr. Vevaina served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Undergraduate Core Curriculum and as the Lecturer on Old Iranian at Harvard from 2007-2008. He has taught a number of courses related to Zoroastrianism including, Old Persian Language and Literature and Middle Language and Literature, an Introduction to Zoroastrianism and a seminar course on Contemporary Zoroastrianism. His research interests include: theoretical approaches to the study of Zoroastrianism; the history and development of Zoroastrian interpretation;  colonial and post-colonial constructions of religion; and religion in Diaspora. He is currently working on a number of articles and a book project to be published by Harrassowitz Verlag of Wiesbaden, Germany. He is also the co-editor (with Michael Stausberg, University of Bergen) of the forthcoming, The Blackwell Companion to the Study of Zoroastrianism to be published by Wiley-Blackwell of Oxford, UK.