Prof. Richard Foltz, PhD
- Professor, Religions and Cultures
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Biography
Education
PhD (Harvard University)
Richard Foltz is a cultural historian specializing in the broader Iranian world. He has published 12 books and over one hundred articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen languages. His most recent book is The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus (Bloomsbury Publishers, 2022).
Research interests
Iran
Central Asia
Caucasus
Silk Road
Tajiks
Ossetia
Mughal India
Religions of Iran
Traditions
Islam
Zoroastrianism
Yezidism
Mithraism
Manichaeism
Uatsdin
Selected publications
The Ossetes: Modern-Day Scythians of the Caucasus, Bloomsbury Publishers, 2021.
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.
Recent graduate seminars and reading courses
Ancient Iran (2016)
Religions of the Silk Road (2015)