Academia.edu: https://ui-ir.academia.edu/HosseinSheikh

• Linguistics (Linguistic Geography of Central Asia and Iran in Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Times, Translation in Pre-Modern Iran)
• Law (Legal Practice in Iran and Central Asia in Late Antiquity, Slavery in Iran)
• Cultural History (Pre-Modern Manuscriptology, Persian Historiography, Literacy in Ancient Iran)

Education

• B.A History, Tabriz University, 2000.
• M.A Culture and Languages of Iran (Ancient and Middle Iranian languages), 2003.
• PH. D Iranian Studies (section Ancient Iran), University of Göttingen, 2017.

Academic career

• University Isfahan, Department of History and Iranian Studies, Faculty Member, 2023-2025.
• Bahari Visiting Fellow in Persian Arts of the Book 2025-2026.
• Research Associate of "How Sasanian Science and Literature passed on to the Muslims" since 2026.
• Member of the editorial board of the Website “ANCIENT IRAN NEWS, News of research on the culture, history, religions and languages of ancient Iran”, https://ancientirannews.com/en/

Conferences

• “Servant or slave: The Old Persian word Bandaka and its cognates in Middle Iranian languages” In BCDSS Annual Conference: “Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies: Semantics, Lexical Fields and Narratives” October 1–2, 2020.
• “Establishment and composition of the Zoroastrian legal corpus after the Muslim conquests” In Orality and Literacy XIV: Textualization, Jerusalem, June 21-23, 2021.
• “Classification of Bactrian Letters, primary report” The 2nd Iranian Studies Webinar (Azhiar: Association of Iranian Languages), December 20, 2023.
• “Gīl Gīlān or Dēl Dēlān? Epithets of Ispahbads of Tabaristan in Pahlavi documents from Tabaristan; Some Remarks” (in Persian) . In: Study of Middle Persian Documents from Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iran: A Description of the Discovery, Content, and History of Documents from Egypt, Hastijan, and Tabaristan. February 14, 2024.
• “The Inheritance of a Childless Man: A New Approach to Document 28 from Tabaristan” In: the 2nd Berkeley Workshop on Middle Persian Documents & Sealings, October 10-11, 2024.