Khodadad Rezakhani is a historian of Late Antique and early medieval West and Central Asia, with a particular focus on the Sasanian Empire. He is currently Principal Investigator of the A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad project (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) and Lecturer in the International Studies Programme at Leiden University. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2010 and has held academic positions in the UK, US, and Germany, including at Princeton, the LSE, and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Khodadad Rezakhani is a historian of Late Antique and early medieval West and Central Asia, with a particular focus on the Sasanian Empire. He is currently Principal Investigator of the A City of Many Cities: Ctesiphon and Baghdad project (Gerda Henkel Stiftung) and Lecturer in the International Studies Programme at Leiden University. He received his PhD from UCLA in 2010 and has held academic positions in the UK, US, and Germany, including at Princeton, the LSE, and the Freie Universität Berlin.
His research combines geopolitical history, prosopography, and numismatics with a Global Late Antiquity perspective. He is the author of ReOrienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and co-editor of Brill’s Handbook to War in Ancient Iranian Empires (2025). He is also a series editor for Late Antique West Asia (Brepols) and has promoted public scholarship through media, conferences, and digital outreach.
Rezakhani is a co-organizer of the Ērān Tūrān Hrōm network and of the Ērān Research Forum, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration across Late Antique West and Central Asia.