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Curriculum vitae
Professional Background
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January 2001
to Present |
Scientist, Northwest Iranian Language Project, Linguistics
Department, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Leipzig, Germany. |
June 1997 to
June 15, 2000 |
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, Vafsi Language and Folk Tale
Project, Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Göttingen,
Germany. |
Fall 1988 to
June 1996 |
Acting Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Middle Eastern
Linguistics, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization,
University of Washington. |
Winter 1992,
Winter 1991 |
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Areal Linguistics, Department of
Anthropology, University of Washington. |
| Summer, 1992 |
Professor of Georgian, Summer Intensive Course in Georgian (150
hrs/8 wks), University of Washington. |
Summers,
1989 - 1991 |
Professor of Persian, Summer Intensive Course in Persian (150
hrs/8 wks), University of Utah, Portland State University, University
of Pennsylvania. |
| Fall 1988 |
Consulting Linguist, Interface of Iranian and Turkic Languages,
Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania, funded through
Office of International Education, Title VI Grant. (see AWARDS) |
| Summer 1988 |
Participant, Research Group of Pashto Summer Institute, Research
Foundation, University of Pennsylvania. (see AWARDS) |
Sept. 1982 to
June 1988 |
Assistant Professor, English as a Second Language, Reading Unit,
English Department, Eugenio María de Hostos Community College
of the City University of New York (C.U.N.Y.). |
June 1979 to
August 1982 |
Free-Lance Tutor. Tutored English, facilitated American cultural
adaptation withAfghan, Iranian and Russian professionals resident
in the United States. |
July 1977 to
June 1979 |
Grant Recipient. National Endowment for the Humanities grants
to co-author two Persian language textbooks. (see AWARDS, PUBLICATIONS) |
July 1970 to
July 1977 |
Assistant Professor, Persian Language and Iranian Linguistics,
Department of Near Eastern Languages, University of California
at Los Angeles (UCLA). |
March 1976 to
August 1976 |
TrainingSpecialist, International Training Consultants (ITC of
Iran). Innovated and conducted cross-cultural communication program
for a multi-national staff of specialists in technology of education. |
May 1969 to
February 1970 |
Director, English and Persian as a Second Language Programs,
Tehran International High School. Hired, trained and supervised
staff of nine teachers; taught classes (English to junior high
school students and Persian to elementary school children); carried
out administrative duties. |
May 1966 to
Sept. 1966 |
Coordinator, Persian Language Instruction, Peace Corps Training
Project, Austin, Texas. Designed, implemented and administered
entire program. Duties included recruitment, training, supervision
of 11 teachers of Persian and 75 trainees, as well as development
of proficiency-based language materials for 380 contact hours of
Peace Corps Training. |
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EDUCATION |
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| Ph.D. (1971), M.A. (1968), Linguistics, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. |
| B.S. (1963), Languages (Major: Russian, Minor: French), Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C. |
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Certificat d'Études (1962), Cours de Civilisation Française,
Sorbonne, University of Paris. |
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AWARDS AND GRANTS |
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| Summer 1988 |
Consulting Linguist, Research Group of Pashto Summer
Institute, Research to Present Foundation, University of Pennsylvania.
Fall-Spring funded by Office of International Education, Title
VI Grant to the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania. |
| Sept. 1978 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Higher Education Curriculum
to June 1979 Development Grant, "Elementary Persian Text:
Spoken and Written Modern Persian," with co-author J.W.Clinton,
Princeton University. (see PUBLICATIONS). |
| December 1977 |
National Endowment for the Humanities, Higher Education Curriculum
to June 1979 Development Grant to co-author "Modern Persian:
Intermediate Level," with G.L. Windfuhr et al., University
of Michigan.
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LANGUAGE SKILLS: READING PROFICIENCY |
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| Native Language: English |
| Very Well: Persian (including familiarity with Tajik), Russian,
French |
| Well: Spanish, Italian High Intermediate Level: German, Serbo-Croatian |
| Low Intermediate Level: Armenian, Azerbaijani, Vafsi (Tati language) |
| Elementary: Arabic, Georgian, Polish, Romanian, Romany, Mandarin
Chinese, Modern Greek |
| Passive with some Active Knowledge: Bulgarian, Turkish, |
| Formal Study: Russian, French, Persian, Sanskrit, Avestan, Old
Persian, Middle Persian, Suleimanieh Kurdish, Tajik, Pashto, Arabic,
Spanish, German, Basque |
| Alphabets: Perso-Arabic, Cyrillic (including variants for Russian,
Serbian, Tajik), Armenian, Georgian, Devanagari, Greek (with review
work also: Hebrew, Middle Persian, Avestan) |
| Have also conducted field work on many Tatic, Central Plateau
and Caspian languages, Northern and Central Central Kurdish, Zazaki/Dimli,
Pashto. |
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