Touraj Daryaee

Touraj Daryaee
Daryaee in 2011
Born	1967 (age 56–57) Tehran, Iran
Academic background
Alma mater	University of California, Los Angeles
Thesis	The Fall of the Sāsānian Empire and the End of Late Antiquity: Continuity and Change in the Province of Persis (1999)
Academic work
Discipline	Iranology
Institutions	University of California, Irvine École pratique des hautes études California State University, Fullerton
Main interests	Ancient/Medieval Iranian History Iranian languages and literature Zoroastrianism Numismatics

Touraj Daryaee (Persian: تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the University of California, Irvine.^[1]