Touraj Daryaee (; 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. Career Daryaee completed his elementary and secondary schooling in Tehran, Iran and Athens, Greece. He then completed a PhD in history at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1999. He has taught at UCLA, and has been a senior research fellow at Oxford University and resident fellow at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He specializes in the history and culture of Ancient Persia. He is the editor of the Name-ye Iran-e Bastan, The International Journal of Ancient Iranian Studies, DABIR: Digital Ar, as well as the director of Sasanika Project, a project on the history and culture of Sasanians. His most famous publications include Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire and Sasanian Iran (224-651 CE): Portrait of a Late Antique Empire. He has also edited a book on Iranian history from the prehistoric era to modern history. Publications Daryaee is the author of a number of historical publications. His book, Sasanian Persia: The Rise and Fall of an Empire, in 2010 received multiple awards by BRISMES and the British-Kuwait Friendship Society Prize in Middle Eastern Studies. Selected books The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires: adaptation and expansion, eds. Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Michael Alram, Touraj Daryaee (Editor), Oxbow Press, Oxford, 2016. From Oxus to Euphrates: The World of Late Antique Iran, Ancient Iran Series, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2016. Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Dureé, eds. T. Daryaee, A. Mousavi, Kh. Rezakhani, Mazda Publishers, 2014. Cyrus the Great: An Ancient Iranian King, ed. T. Daryaee, Afshar Publishers, 2014. On the Explanation of Chess and Backgammon: A Middle Persian Text, UCI Center for Persian Studies, 2016. Iranian Kingship, The Arab Conquest and Zoroastrian Apocalypse, Mumbai, 2012 (Governor Fellowship Lectures given in the K.R. Cama Oriental Institute) The Oxford History of Iran ed. T. Daryaee, Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2012). Bibliographika Sasanika: Bibliographical Guide to the Sasanian Empire, vol. I Years 1990–1999, in collaboration with E. Venetis, M. Alinia, Mazda Publishers, 2009. Scholars & Humanists: Iranian Studies in Henning and Taqizadeh Correspondences 1937–1966, in collaboration with I. Afshar and P. Ranjbar, Mazda Publishers, 2009. Iranistik: Deutschsprachige Zeitschrift fur iranistische Studien. Festschrift fur Erich