Principal Investigator
Afsaneh Najmabadi, Harvard University
Project Manager, Iran
Farshideh Mirbaghdadabadi
Project Team, Iran
Hamid Eskandari, Azadeh Hassanein, Gelareh Mozaffari
Project Team, Cambridge
Azadeh Tajpour, Nazila Hafezi, Roya Amigh, Belle Cheves
Board of Advisors
Nuzhat Ahmadi (History, al-Zahra University)
Bahman Bayani (History, independent scholar, Tehran)
Houri Berberian (History, University of California, Irvine)
Dominic Parviz Brookshaw (Persian Literature, University of Oxford)
Layla S. Diba (Art historian, independent scholar)
Alireza Doostdar (Islamic Studies and Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar (President, International Association of Qajar Studies)
Simin Fasihi (History, al-Zahra University)
Gene Garthwaite (History, Dartmouth College)
Talinn Grigor (Art History, Brandies University)
Margaret Hale (Librarian for Collections Digitization, Harvard College Library)
Arash Khazeni (History, Pomona College)
Jasmin Khosravie (Near and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bonn)
Rudi Matthee (History, University of Delaware)
Abbas Mehrvarz (History, Bu‘ali Sina University)
Ali Miransari (Historian, Tehran, CGIE)
Amy Motlagh (English & Comparative Literature, American University of Cairo)
Nahid Mozaffari (MEIS, New York University)
Seyed Meqdad Nabavi Razavi (Historian, Tehran, independent scholar)
Dariush Rahmanian (History, Tehran University)
Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi (History, California State University, Fullerton)
Gholamreza Salami (Historian and archivist, independent scholar, Tehran)
Sunil Sharma (Literary scholar, Boston University)
Esmail Shams (Historian, Tehran, CGIE)
Matthew Smith (Middle East Librarian, Widener Library, Harvard University)
Naghmeh Sohrabi (History, Brandies University)
Jeff Spurr (Qajar photography, independent scholar)
Akbar Taghizadeh (Urban Architecture and Development, Independent scholar, Tabriz)
Farideh Taheri (Art historian, independent scholar, Tehran)
Mohammadreza Tahmasbpour (Historian of photography, independent scholar, Tehran)
Farzin Vejdani (History, Ryerson University)
Heidi Walcher (History, University of Munich)
Dalia Yasharpour (Literature, Los Angeles, independent scholar)
Roxane Zand (Historian, independent scholar, London)
Financial Administrator
Cory Paulsen, Harvard University
Website and Database Development
Vermonster
Website Design
Pendar Yousefi, Mahimoto
Special Thanks
Tara Murphy, Peter Katz, Saeed Behrouzi, Nasrin Maleki, Sohrab Mahdavi, Shirin Jaafari, Jaleh Jalili, Shirin Mozaffari, Sourena Parham, Maryam Momeni, Parisa A. Moghadam, Mahbube Moghadam, Fatemeh Moezzi, Asieh Ale Ahmad, Maryam Farzaneh, Maryam Salehi, Robert Ames