Prof. Richard Foltz, PhD

Professor, Religions and Cultures

Biography    Selected publications    Recent graduate seminars and reading courses   

Education

PhD (Harvard University)

Richard Foltz is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world. He has published 11 books and over one hundred articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen languages. His most recent book is A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2019). Currently he is conducting research for a study of the Ossetes of the Caucasus.

Research interests

Iranian History
Central Asia
Tajiks
Silk Road
Caucasus
Ossetia
Mughal India
Religions of Iran

Traditions

Islam
Zoroastrianism
Yezidism
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Uatsdin

View Richard Foltz's CV

A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2019.

Iran in World History, Oxford University Press, 2016.

Religions of Iran: From Prehistory to the Present, Oneworld Publications, 2013.

Religions of the Silk Road: Premodern Patterns of Globalization, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Ancient Iran (2016)
Religions of the Silk Road (2015)