Habib Borjian is a linguist who specializes in a wide variety of matters, including historical linguistics, language documentation, philology and

Iranian languages The Iranian languages, also called the Iranic languages, are a branch of the Indo-Iranian languages in the Indo-European language family that are spoken natively by the Iranian peoples, predominantly in the Iranian Plateau. The Iranian langu ...

and literature. He was educated at

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, the

University of Tehran The University of Tehran (UT) or Tehran University (, ) is a public collegiate university in Iran, and the oldest and most prominent Iranian university located in Tehran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as ...

and

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. From 2010 to 2019, Borjian worked at Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies. Since 2012, Borjian has been co-director of the

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(Near East region). In the past, he also worked within the board of editors of the ''

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'', and served as associate editor of the '' Journal of Persianate Studies''.

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21st-century linguists Historical linguists Philologists Iranologists Columbia University alumni University of Tehran alumni Yerevan State University alumni Columbia University faculty Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{historical-linguistics-stub