Hossein SameiAssociate Teaching Professor and Language Coordinator in Persian

I was born in 1953 in Tehran, Iran. After completing high school, I studied Persian Language and Literature at the National University of Iran (Now Beheshti University), earning my BA in 1979. I later pursued graduate studies in linguistics at Tehran University, where I received my MA in 1987 and PhD in 1997. From 1987 to 2001, I worked as a research associate at the Academy of Persian Language and Literature, taught linguistics in Iranian universities, and contributed to two major lexicographical projects. In 1999–2000, I spent a year at Harvard University as a Yarshater Fellow.

Since 2001, I have been on the faculty of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University, where I serve as Associate Teaching Professor. My teaching focuses on Persian as a second language as well as courses on Central Asian sociolinguistics and Iranian society.
My publications include two collections of articles on grammar and linguistics (2020) and on Persian dictionaries(2020), as well as Principles of Lexicography (2020), Persian Morphology (2017), Persian Word-Formation: ATheoretical Analysis (2016), Morphological Rules of Persian (2014), Persian Grammar (co-author, 2007), Dictionary of Historical Military Terms in Persian (co-author, 2002), and A Millennium English-Persian Dictionary (co-author, 2000).

Education/Degrees

• Ph.D., Linguistics, Tehran University
• M.A., Linguistics, Tehran University
• B.A., Persian Literature, National University of Iran

Teaching/Research Areas

• Teaching Persian as a Second Language
• Lexicography
• Linguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Persian Literature
• Persian Grammar

Books Published

• Grammar and Linguistics (Article collection), Tehran: Bahar Publishers, 2020
• Persian Dictionaries (Article Collection), Tehran: Bahar Publishers, 2020
• Principals of Lexicography, Tehran, Bahar Publishers, 2020
• Persian Morphology, Tehran: Bahar Publishers, 2017
• Persian Word-Formation: A Theoretical Analysis. Tehran: Bahar Publishers, 2016
• Word Formation Patterns in Persian. Tehran: Academy of Persian Language and Literature, 2014
• Persian Grammar. (Co-authored with A.M. Haghshenas, M. Samai & M. Tabatabai). Tehran: Iranian Ministry of Education, 2007
• Qajar Dictionary of Police and Military Terminology. (Co-author, with Y. Modarresi & Z. Safavi). Tehran: Cultural Research Bureau, 2002
• A Millennium English-Persian Dictionary 2 volumes. (Co-author, with A. M. Haghshenas & N. Entekhabi). Tehran:  Farhang Moaser Publishers, 2000