Nile Green is Professor of History and the current holder of the Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

(UCLA). He specializes in Islamic history of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe, including that of the wider

Persianate A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity. The term "Persianate" is a neologism credited to Marshall Hodgson. In his 1974 book, ''The Venture of I ...

world. He has authored seven monographs and over seventy articles and has edited seven books. He was a founding director of UCLA's Program on

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the fo ...

, in addition to various boards, including the ''

International Journal of Middle East Studies The ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'' is a scholarly journal published by the Middle East Studies Association of North America (MESA), a learned society. See also * Middle East Research and Information Project * Association for ...

''. According to his profile page, Green currently functions as a member of the South Asia Council of the Association of Asian Studies, the Executive Committee of the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies, in addition to being a member of the editorial boards of ''

Iranian Studies Iranian studies ( fa, ايران‌شناسی '), also referred to as Iranology and Iranistics, is an interdisciplinary field dealing with the research and study of the civilization, history, literature, art and culture of Iranian peoples. It ...

'', ''Iran-Nameh'', ''Afghanistan'', the ''Journal of South Asian Intellectual History'' and the ''South Asia Across the Disciplines'' book series.

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