The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS) is a non-governmental, non-political, not-for-profit professional organization for researchers and scholars interested in the culture and civilization of the Persian-speaking societies and related areas in the Iranian civilizational area.
It publishes the Journal of Persianate Studies, a collection of scholarly articles, book reviews and conference reports, and the semi-annual ASPS Newsletter. The Association’s biennial conferences have been held in Turkey, Bosnia and Herzegovina, India, Pakistan, Georgia and Armenia since its inauguration in Tajikistan in 2002. Twelve regional branches give ASPS an international presence.

The Association supports the efforts of scholars around the world. It has supported the travel of scholars from Iran and Central Asia to take part in its conferences. The Central Eurasia Research Fund provides funds for scholars from Central Asia. The Association also posts announcements of job openings and upcoming conferences relevant for its members.
ASPS bylaws can be accessed here. Our tax-exemption certificate (as a US-based 503 (c) (3) organization) is available here. Our OFAC license number is: [IA-2019-360098-1].

The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Officers and Board of Directors

President

Sussan Babaie (2022-2024)
The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London

President Elect

Mirjam Künkler (2024, President 2025-2027)

Institut d’Études Avancées de Nantes

Vice President

Evrim Binbaş (2023-2025)
University of Bonn

Secretary

Robert Haug (2022-2024)
University of Cincinnati

Treasurer

Austin O’Malley (2024-2026)
The University of Arizona

Past Presidents

Said Amir Arjomand (Founder)
SUNY Stony Brook

Rudi Matthee
University of Delaware

Parvaneh Pourshariati
New York City College of Technology (CUNY)

Sunil Sharma
Boston University

Kazuo Morimoto
The University of Tokyo

Directors of Regional Branches

See Regional Branches…

ASPS Bylaws

See ASPS Bylaws

Board of Directors

Catherine Ambler (2022-2024)
Columbia University

Said Amir Arjomand, ex-officio
JPS Editor
SUNY Stony Brook

Daniel Beben, (2023-2025)
Nazarbayev University

Mehdi Faraji, ex officio
Newsletter Editor
New York University

Peyvand Firouzeh (2023-2025)
University of Sydney

Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi (2022-2024)
Princeton University

Jo-Ann Gross, ex officio
CERF Director
The College of New Jersey

Mana Kia (2022-2024)
Columbia University

Amanda Caterina Leong (2024-2026)
Student Member
University of California, Merced

D Gershon Lewental, ex-officio
JPS Associate Editor
University of Oklahoma and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Kazuo Morimoto (2024-2026)
Institute for Advanced Study on Asia, The University of Tokyo

Karolina Rakowiecka-Asgari (2023-2025)
Jagiellonian University in Cracow

Mohsen Zakeri, ex officio 
JPS Assistant Editor
Ruhr-Universität Bochum

The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies

Regional Branches

Armenia

Garnik Asatrian
Institute of Oriental Studies
Russian-Armenian State University
Yerevan
Republic of Armenia
E-mail: caucasoiranica@gmail.com

Central Europe

Florian Schwarz
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Institute of Iranian Studies
Prinz-Eugen-Strasse 8-10
1040 Wien, Austria
E-mail: florian.schwarz@oeaw.ac.at

India

Salma Farooqui
H.K Sherwani Center of Deccan Studies
Maulana Azad National Urdu University
Gachibowli, Hyderabad 500032
India
Email: salmafarooqui@gmail.com

The Mediterranean Region

Carlo G. Cereti
Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”
Dipartimento di studi orientali, primo piano, studio 2
P.le Aldo Moro 5
Roma 00185
Italy
E-mail: carlogiovanni.cereti@uniroma1.it

Poland

Mateusz M.P. Kłagisz
Institute of Oriental Studies
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
al. Mickiewicza 6
31-120 Kraków
Poland
Email: mateusz.klagisz@uj.edu.pl

Paulina Niechciał
Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations
Jagiellonian University in Kraków
ul. Grodzka 52
31-044 Kraków
Poland

Russia

Pavel Basharin
Department of Iranian Studies
Russian State University for the Humanities
Miusskaya pl., D. 6, Bldg. 2, office. 506-508
Moscow 125047
Russia
E-mail: pbasharin@yandex.ru

Balkans

Ahmed Zildzic
University of Sarajevo
Department for Oriental Philology
71 000 Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Phone/fax + 387 33 253 107
Website: www.ff.unsa.ba
Email: ahmed.zildzic@ff.unsa.ba

Georgia

George Sanikidze
Institute of Oriental Studies
The Ilia State University
3, Acad. G. Tsereteli Street,
0162 Tbilisi,
Georgia
Email: gsany@yahoo.com

Iran

Kourosh Kamali
Keshavarz Blvd, Vesal Shirazi Street
Koucheh Shahed, 8, unit 1
Tehran
Iran
E-mail: kkamali2001@yahoo.com

Japan

Kazuo Morimoto
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
University of Tokyo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-0033
Japan
E-mail: morikazu@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Pakistan

Muhammad Saleem Mazhar
Department of Persian
Oriental College
University of the Punjab
Lahore
Pakistan
Email: saleemmazhar@yahoo.com

Tajikistan

Umed Mamadsherzodshoev
ASPS/Umed Mamadsherzodshoev
20 Khubonshoh Street
Khorog, GBAO, Tajikistan 736000
Tel: 992-35222-2-44-04
E-mail: umed66@list.ru

Contact Us

The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS)

c/o Sharmin and Bijam Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies

2-S-2 Green Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

Tel: (609) 258-0576

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Journal of Persianate Studies (JPS)

Department of Sociology
State University of New York
Stony Brook, New York 11794-4356
Tel: (631) 632-7746
Fax: (631) 632-8203
http://www.brill.nl/jps

For questions about submitting to the Journal, please contact the editor, Saïd Amir Arjomand and/or associate editor D Gershon Lewental.

For questions regarding Membership and receipt of journal, please contact the treasurer, Austin O’Malley.

For submitting items to the Newsletter, please contact the newsletter editor, Mehdi Faraji.

For all other enquiries, please contact the secretary, Robert Haug.