Lecturers

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KianSoheila KianLecturer

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Office Hours: M & W 11am-12pm and By Appointment
HOB2, 120
(949) 824-0018

Soheila Kian teaches Persian and French languages and cultures: Acquiring and learning a foreign language offers students a "greater awareness of self" and is the mediator between the native language and culture and the one students are acquiring, and this will provide a greater insight and perception of both cultures.

Persian Program Website
skian@uci.edu
MousaviAli MousaviLecturer

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Ali Mousavi teaches ancient Iran history. He is an archaeologist by training and has worked on the Bronze Age and Iron Age archaeology. He excavated at the site of Pasargadae, Iran. He is the author of a book on Persepolis: Persepolis. Discovery and Afterlife of a World Wonder, published by De Gruyter, Berlin, 2012.
SahranavardNeda SahranavardLecturer

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My name is Neda Sahranavard. I enjoy and value teaching and I am the 2020 TESOL Teacher of the Year (http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/tesolc/issues/2020-01-01/index.html). My career as an educator for the past 17+ years has been extremely gratifying. My passion for the English language, literature, and teaching led me to pursue my Ph.D. in English. I am currently serving as an Academic Coordinator/Lecturer at UCI, Program in Academic English. By training, I am an English major, but by experience, I am a teacher of English to multilingual students. My coursework and research have covered topics of linguistic and language pedagogy, and I worked with multilingual and multicultural students extensively. My goal as an educator has always been providing the best assistance to all of my students.
nsahrana@uci.edu
StraughnIan StraughnLecturer

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Ph.D: University of Chicago, 2006
Expertise: archaeology, cultural heritage, middle east islamic studies, space and landscape, material culture

Ian Straughn, UCI anthropology lecturer with potential for security of employment, is interested in the stories behind different cultures. As a grad student at the University of Chicago and in post doctoral and professorial posts at Brown University, he focused on the archaeology of the Middle East – particularly the Islamic periods. He’s conducted research in Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Armenia, studying regional cultural heritage and material culture. His fieldwork in bustling markets, ancient temples and other archaeological hotspots has been aided by varying degrees of fluency in modern standard Arabic, Egyptian and Syrian colloquial dialects, classical Arabic, French, Persian, Latin and German.
ian.straughn@uci.edu