The Board of the WPU

Members of the Board of the World Philology Union (as of 6 December 2024)

 

Jens Braarvig (President) – Emeritus Professor, University of Oslo, and Director of the Norwegian Institute of Philology.

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Alberto Cantera – Professor of Iranian Studies, Free University of Berlin.

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Eleanor Dickey – Professor of Classics, University of Reading.

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Lutz Edzard – Professor in Arabic and Semitic Linguistics, Erlangen University.

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Jaehee Han – Assistant Professor, Buddhist Studies Department, Dongguk University.

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Samuel Lieu – Honorary President of the International Union of Academies, UAI.

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Torbjörn Lodén – Emeritus Professor of Chinese language and culture, Stockholm University.

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Luisa Migliorati – Professor of Archaeology, Sapienza University of Rome.

 

Martha T. Roth – Chauncey S. Boucher Distinguished Service Professor of Assyriology in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago.

 

Velizar Sadovski (Treasurer) – Distinguished Research Fellow and Iranian Linguistics Group Leader, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

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Walther Sallaberger – Professor of Assyriology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

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Danuta Shanzer (Vice President) – Professor in Late Antique and Medieval Latin, University of Vienna.

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Jianrong Shi – Assistant Professor Grade Teaching Staff, Department of Religious Studies at Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei.

 

Nicholas Sims-Williams – Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies, SOAS University of London.

 

Luisa Villani – Postdoctoral Researcher, National Autonomous University of Mexico.

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Kazuhiko Yoshida – Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, Kyoto University.