Jamsheed choksy biography of michael jackson

Jamsheed K. Choksy is a Distinguished Professor, former Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, former Chair of the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and current Director of the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center (US Title VI) at Indiana University - Bloomington.^[1][2] Choksy completed his undergraduate degree from Columbia University in 1985, where he studied with Ehsan Yarshater, Richard Bulliet, Ainslie Embree, James Russell, and Peter Awn.

He went on to doctoral work at Harvard University from 1985 to 1991 where he studied with Richard Frye, Roy Mottahedeh, Clifford Lamberg-Karlovsky, and Annemarie Schimmel, and was elected a Junior Fellow (1987-1991). From there, he embarked on a career in academia, beginning as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Stanford University (1991-1993) and subsequently a tenure track professor at Indiana University in 1993, eventually holding appointments in a variety of