Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Fellows
- Habib Borjian
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- Room #: 15 Seminary Place Room 5122, College Avenue Campus
- Visiting Scholar
Habib Borjian is a philologist with interests in historical linguistics, dialectology, Persian literature, and the history of Inner Asia. His academic training in the humanities spans Columbia University, University of Tehran, and the State University of Yerevan. Dr. Borjian worked as a research scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies, Columbia University in 2010-19. Currently he serves on the board of directors of Endangered Language Alliance, aiming at documenting rare languages spoken by immigrant communities in Greater New York. Since 2012, he has served as Co-director of the Near East region at the Endangered Languages Project, a joint project of Google and Univ. of Hawaii, in which his work entails identifying and categorizing the languages spoken in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Turkey, and Iran. During his tenure at the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies (2006-12), Dr. Borjian organized and presided over biannual conferences in Tbilisi, Lahore, and Hyderabad. During the academic years of 2017-19, he sat on the Libraries Senate Committee of Columbia University.