Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington.
[1][2] Choksy completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1985, where he studied with Ehsan Yarshater, Richard Bulliet, Ainslie Embree, James Russell, and Peter Awn.
He went on to doctoral work at Harvard University from 1985 to 1991 where he studied with Richard Frye, Roy Mottahedeh, Clifford Lamberg-Karlovsky, and Annemarie Schimmel, and was elected a Junior Fellow (1987-1991).
Choksy is considered one of the foremost authorities on Iran, India, Islam, and Zoroastrianism, combining historical understanding to discuss modern issues and topics.
[3][2] An important piece of this research and his pieces in the foreign affairs and popular press, such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Real Clear World, the Huffington Post and other venues, is pulling from his historical understanding of history, culture, and religion to illustrate how different cultures and people in the Middle East and Central Asia interact.