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James R. Russell is a professor of Iranian and Indo-European Studies at Harvard University. He is a renowned scholar of Iranian and Indo-European languages and cultures, and has written extensively on the subject. He is the author of several books, including Zoroastrianism: A Shadowy but Powerful Presence in the Land of Iran, and The Zoroastrian Tradition: An Introduction to the Ancient Wisdom of Zarathustra. He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on Iranian and Indo-European topics.
Russell was born in New York City in 1953. He received his B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1975, and his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1981. He has been a professor at Harvard since 1988.
Russell is a member of the American Oriental Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He is also a Fellow of the British Academy. He has received numerous awards and honors, including the Order of the British Empire, the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic, and the Order of the Rising Sun of Japan.
| Popular As |
James Robert Russell |
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Professor at Harvard University, author, scholar |
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70 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Libra |
| Born |
1953-10-, 1953 |
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1953-10- |
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New York City, USA |
| Nationality |
United States |
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Joseph Brooke Russell Charlotte Sananes Russell |
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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In July, 2016, Russell became semi-retired and moved his residence to Fresno, California.
He lectured on Soteriology on the Silk Road for the Buddhist Lecture Series of the University of Toronto in October 2005, and organized and chaired an international symposium in the same month to commemorate the 1600th anniversary of Saint Mesrop Mashtots, inventor of the Armenian alphabet. He has written on, translated, and analyzed the esoteric, mystical, and spiritual aspects of the writings of Gregory of Narek, and has written numerous articles for the Encyclopædia Iranica. He contributed to the New Leader magazine.
In his speech at the conference "Rethinking Armenian Studies: Past, Present, and Future" on October 4, 2002 at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, Russell cautioned the audience against the "conspiracy theories, xenophobia, and ultra-nationalist pseudo-science [which] have come increasingly into the mainstream of Armenology in the Armenian Republic" and which have found sympathetic outlets in some of the diasporic press, where paranoia and anti-Semitism have been notably present. "It is a task of the community to set its house in order because these trends are in the end suicidal," he warned. Although Prof. Russell declines to debate such issues, he stated that "I will help with my pen what I still believe to be the great majority of Armenians to expose and destroy the sort of people who are not only dragging our field, but possibly the community itself into dangerous territory".
Soon after finishing his Ph.D. he taught at Columbia University in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELAC). He then became a Lady Davis Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Soon after he was appointed to the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies in the Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Department at Harvard University, which he has occupied since 1993. He also teaches a wide range of subjects, including freshman seminars on literature and comparative religions, literature and cultures.
He earned his Ph.D. at the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), under the direction of Dr. Mary Boyce. His 1982 Ph.D. thesis was on the topic of "Zoroastrianism in Armenia" and later published by Harvard University Press.
Russell was born in New York City and grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City. His parents are Jewish: his mother's ancestry was Sephardic and his father's ancestry was Ashkenazic. He was educated at The Bronx High School of Science in New York City, Columbia University [B.A. summa cum laude 1974], and the University of Oxford [B.Litt. 1977], under the noted Armenologists Nina Garsoïan and Charles Dowsett. He attended Oxford as the recipient of a Kellett Fellowship awarded on graduation from Columbia.
James Robert Russell (born October 1953) is a scholar and professor in Ancient Near Eastern, Iranian and Armenian Studies. He has published extensively in journals, and has written several books.
