Honorary Members
The Association for Iranian Studies gratefully recognizes the enduring and outstanding scholarship, service, and mentorship of its honorary fellows, who have led the field with distinction for decades:
2024 AIS Honorary Fellows
- Layla Diba – Brooklyn Museum, Independent Scholar
- Erika Friedl – Western Michigan University
- John Gurney – University of Oxford
- Shahla Haeri – Boston University
- Paul E. Losensky – Indiana University, Bloomington
- Paul Luft – Durham University
- Farzaneh Milani – University of Virginia
- Roy Parviz Mottahedeh – Harvard University
- Afsaneh Najmabadi – Harvard University
- Sirous Shamisa – Allameh Tabataba’i University
- Nayereh Tohidi – California State University, Northridge
AIS Honorary Fellows Committee, 2024: Dr. Dominic Brookshaw, Dr. Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet, and AIS Council
2023 AIS Honorary Fellows
- Ervand Abrahamian – CUNY Graduate Center
- Lois Beck – Washington University, St. Louis
- Richard Bulliet – Columbia University
- Dick Davis – Ohio State University
- Mansoureh Ettehadieh – University of Tehran
- Willem Floor –Independent Scholar
- Mary Hegland – Santa Clara University
- Homa Hoodfar – Concordia University
- Homa Katouzian – University of Oxford
- Nikki Keddie – UCLA
- Yann Richard – Sorbonne Nouvelle (Paris)
- Homa Sarshar – Honar Foundation
- Anthony Shay – Pomona College
Late Honorary Members
- Iraj Afshar (Tehran University) (1925-2011)
- Richard N. Frye (Harvard University) (1920-2014)
- Oleg Grabar (Princeton University) (1929-2011)
- Ann Lambton (SOAS, University of London) (1912-2008)
- Eugen Wirth (Institut für Geographie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg) (1925-2012)
- Ehsan Yarshater (Columbia University (1920-2018)
- Gilbert Lazard (Universite Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3 (1920-2018)
