Dear Members of ASPS,
It gives us great pleasure to introduce to you Dr Stefan Kamola from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, whom the ASPS board last week elected as the new JPS editor-in-chief.
Dr Kamola is a historian of Mongol Iran and of the Mongol world more broadly. His research focuses on Persian-language histories written during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries to understand how the population of Iran came to understand the new political reality of Mongol rule. For past publications, this meant studying Ilkhānid narrative chronicles. His current research examines applications of astrological lore in Mongol Iran through marginal texts, including astrological histories, mnemonic poems, and Zoroastrian apocalyptics. He received a Ph.D. in history from the University of Washington in 2013 and held a post-doctoral fellow from 2013-2016 at the Princeton Society of Fellows. From 2016 until 2024, he was part of the history faculty at Eastern Connecticut State University, where he received tenure in 2020.
Stefan will be joining the JPS team as JPS editor-in-chief elect from January 1, 2027, and serve as sole editor-in-chief from January 1, 2028 onwards.
The ASPS Board
