Michael Craig Hillmann (born May 5, 1940) is professor of Persian Studies at the

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and President of Persepolis Institute, Inc. He has published widely on

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and

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and specializes in lyric Persian verse, Persian prose fiction from the 1920s through the 1970s, and literary autobiography. Since the late 1990s, he has focused on Persian instructional materials development, resulting in, among other things, a new Persian language learning syllabus in four volumes called "Persian for America(ns)." He has published two autobiographical books titled ''From Durham to Tehran'' (1991) and ''From Classroom to Courtroom'' (2008). In ''From Classroom to Courtroom'', he tells the story of how academics at the Middle Eastern Studies department became involved in cross-cultural conflicts which resulted in official complaints, allegations of abuse, discrimination, harassment, racism, and a lawsuit against the university. Hillmann is at work on a third and final autobiographical essay called ''To and From a Maine Village'' and a new Persian dictionary for Hippocrene Books.

Selected publications

* ''From Classroom to Courtroom'' (AuthorHouse 2008) * ''Tajiki Textbook and Reader: Second Edition'' (Dunwoody Press

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) * ''Basic Tajik(i) Word List'' (Dunwoody Press

) * ''Persian Vocabulary Acquisition'', 2nd ed. (Dunwoody Press

) * ''Reading Iran Reading Iranians'', 2nd ed. rev. (Dunwoody Press

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) * ''Persian Listening'' (Dunwoody Press,

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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External links

Michael C. Hillmann's personal websiteFaculty Profile, Department of Middle East StudiesPersepolis Institute
1940 births Living people University of Texas at Austin faculty College of the Holy Cross alumni Iranologists Loyola University Maryland alumni University of Chicago alumni {{US-academic-stub