معرفی
Professor Saloumeh Gholami is the British Academy Global Professor in Zoroastrian Studies at the University of Cambridge, leading the project 'Persisting Through Change' on Zoroastrian oral literature and cultural interaction. Previously, she held a professorship in Minority Languages in the Middle East at Goethe University Frankfurt and directed the research cluster 'Minority Studies: Language and Identity' funded by the Hessian Ministry. Her expertise spans endangered languages documentation, Iranian linguistics, and minority cultural studies.
Education: PhD in Iranian Studies (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2014), Habilitation in Comparative Linguistics (Goethe University Frankfurt, 2022).
Research Focus: Zoroastrian oral and written heritage, perceptual dialectology, language and identity intersections, and cultural preservation. Projects include digitizing Avestan manuscripts, analyzing Zoroastrian Dari dialects, and documenting minority languages in Iran.
Key Projects:
- British Academy-funded 'Persisting Through Change' (2024–2028)
- Soudavar Memorial Foundation-supported study of Zoroastrian Dari manuscripts (2023–2026)
- Endangered Archives Programme project on Zoroastrian historical documents (2017–2018)
Awards: 2023 Oxford School of Rare Jewish Languages Fellowship. Recognized internationally for safeguarding linguistic diversity in minority communities.
Publications: Author of books like The Afterlife of Avestan Manuscripts (2024) and Endangered Iranian Languages (2018), with over 20 peer-reviewed articles on minority languages and cultural heritage.
