The languages, religions and history of pre-Islamic Iran and Central Asia with special attention to Zoroastrianism; Ancient and Middle Iranian philology and linguistics
Elected 2015
Political theory: theories of law and the state, pluralism, toleration, republicanism, global justice, secularism and religion
Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
The intersection of language variation and change, language contact and language documentation; the sociolinguistics of languages in Vanuatu.
