Kamyar Abdi

Kamyar Abdi is an Iranian anthropologist and professor of Near Eastern archaeology at Shahid Beheshti University. After studying theoretical physics for a year, he began his undergraduate studies in archaeology at Tehran University, leading to a master's degree. Afterwards, he enrolled in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1994 to study Near Eastern archaeology, history, and languages. Abdi received his PhD in Anthropological Archaeology from the University of Michigan in 2002, under the supervision of Henry T. Wright. Prior to joining the Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, he taught and researched in many institutions, namely Dartmouth College, Harvard University, University of California, Irvine and the British Museum. He was a research associate at the Iranian Center for Research on Humanities and Cultural Studies. In addition to many editorial memberships in national and international journals, Abdi has been affiliated with national and international councils and associations, as well as executive experiences such as directing the American Institute of Iranian Studies. Abdi has carried out many archaeological surveys and excavations in Iran, financially supported by domestic and international organizations, including the NSF, NGS, AllS, and lCAR. The outcomes of his research have played an outstanding role in assisting the scientific community with resolving many questions pertinent to Near Eastern archaeology from prehistory and the Bronze Age to the Achaemenid period. He has also participated in archaeological field projects in Turkey, Iraq, US, Mexico, and Guatemala. Abdi has published many articles and books in English and Persian, and has translated a large number of books and articles from Western languages into Persian. In the meantime, he continues to train undergraduate and graduate students and supervise graduate student thesis and dissertations.