Jamsheed K. Choksy (BA,
Columbia University; PhD, Harvard University) is Distinguished Professor and
former Chairperson of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies and of the
Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and former Director of the
Middle Eastern Studies Program at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an
authority on Iran (Persia), the Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia,
Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, and Islam, and of religious minorities in the
Middle East and Central and South Asia.
He was nominated by the US President and confirmed by the US
Senate as a member of the Council overseeing the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Choksy has held fellowships from the Harvard Society of Fellows
(Junior Fellow), Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, NEH, Guggenheim
Foundation, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, American
Philosophical Society, and American Academy of Religion.
Choksy is a consulting editor for the Encyclopedia Iranica.
He is the author of Triumph over Evil (1989), Conflict and
Cooperation (1997), and Evil, Good, and Gender (2002). His analyses
have appeared in news media around the world including Foreign Affairs, Foreign
Policy, World Politics Review, Real Clear World, Wall Street Journal, Forbes,
CNN, LA Times, National Review, NPR, PBS Frontline, Agence France-Presse,
Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Small Wars Journal, and Times of
India.