Ahmad Karimi-Hakkak was a professor of near eastern languages and civilizations at the University of Washington for nineteen years.

He is currently a professor and founding director of the Roshan Center for Persian Studies[2] in the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures[3] at the University of Maryland, College Park.

[4] Karimi-Hakkak has written nineteen books and over one hundred major scholarly articles.

[7] Karimi-Hakkak's was awarded the Yarshater lectureship for the year 2003 for contributions to Iranian Studies.

Karimi-Hakkak was also invited by the Centre of Persian and Central Asian Studies-Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi as visiting professor in 2011.