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Iranian Studies

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Faculty and Staff of the Iranian Studies Department

Department Chair

Prof. Dr. Christoph U. Werner (in German) 

Department Secretary 

Anja Klein (in German) 

Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Research Assistants

Dr. Goulia Ghardashkhani-Otter (in German), Senior Lecturer and director of the DFG-project "The Grand Narrative of the Holy Defense: Dynamics of Representation and Subversion in Iranian War Literature"

Dr. Christine K?mpfer

(in German), Assistant Professor

Malkhazi Archvadze M.A. (in German), research assistant for the DFG-project "GeorgischeHistoriographie"

Thomas Ecker M.A. (in German), research assistant for the DFG-project "ZwischenWirklichkeitserz?hlung und Selbstzeugnis: PersischePilgerberichte der Kadscharenzeit"

Dr. Reza Pourjavady (in German), research assistant for the DFG-project "SāhibRāms Adaption des A?lāq-iMu?sinī: Eine Fallstudiezumindo-persischenKulturtransferimIndien des 19. Jahrhunderts"

Language Instructor

Mitra Sharifi-Neystanak (in German), lecturer for Persian 

Extraordinary Professors

Prof. Dr. Christine N?lle-Karimi (in German) 

Deputy director of the Iranian Studies Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (?AW), Vienna 

Prof. Dr. Roxane Haag-Higuchi (in German), Acedemic Director (retired)

Emerita / Emeritus 

Prof. Dr. Birgitt Hoffmann 

2003 - 2019 Chair of the Iranian studies department 

Prof. Dr. Bert G. Fragner 

1989 - 2003 Chair of the Iranian studies department 

2003 - 2010 Director of the Iranian Studies Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (?AW), Vienna 

Associated Colleagues