Statement Against Damage to Iran’s Cultural Heritage

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We, the undersigned scholars, faculty, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of archaeology, history, art history, cultural heritage, and related social sciences and humanities disciplines write to condemn in the strongest possible terms the destruction, damage, and endangerment of the cultural heritage of Iran by the United States and Israel. We also express our deep disappointment at the ineffectiveness of international institutions established to protect humanity’s cultural property in such circumstances. As over 100 international law experts have already argued, the war itself raises serious concerns about the violations of the United Nations Charter and international humanitarian law. We, the undersigned, warn that the conduct of the United States and Israel has inflicted irreversible damage on humanity’s cultural heritage and, in light of the ۱۹۵۴ Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict, may give rise to violations of international law.

The Hague Convention was adopted in the aftermath of the Second World War because the international community recognized that the destruction of cultural heritage in wartime is a loss to all humankind. Its foundational principle is that “damage to cultural property belonging to any people whatsoever means damage to the cultural heritage of all [hu]mankind, since each people makes its contribution to the culture of the world”. However, since the war on Iran began on February 28, more than 130 registered UNESCO and national monuments and museums have reportedly been damaged, with more than ۱۰۰ verified locations, not including heavily damaged historic urban quarters and unverified archaeological sites in bombed border regions.

The Convention rests on two basic duties of states: Respect and Safeguarding. The United States and Israel have failed on both counts. At least in one case, the Senate Palace appears to have been directly targeted and destroyed. Many other monuments were severely damaged by heavy strikes in densely historic neighborhoods, where harm to fragile centuries-old buildings and collections was entirely foreseeable.

On March 2nd, 2026, Secretary of War (former Defense), Pete Hegseth, used blunt language about how the United States would conduct war, proclaiming that “We don’t fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country.” This language is deeply alarming. It suggests contempt for legal limits in warfare, including protections for cultural property, and undermines decades of international efforts to safeguard humanity’s irreplaceable cultural heritage from war.

It is particularly alarming and deeply regrettable that the United States — the very country that, during the Second World War, helped establish the legacy of the Monuments Officers and once stood at the forefront of efforts to protect Europe’s cultural heritage during wartime — should now be associated with the destruction or endangerment of the heritage of Iran, one of the world’s oldest and most distinguished civilizations. The destruction of Iran’s cultural heritage, including sites of exceptional significance to humanity as a whole, will not be forgotten. It will remain in public memory, much as the looting of the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad and the militarization of the ancient site of Babylon in Iraq in 2003 remain enduring symbols of catastrophic failure in the protection of cultural heritage during war.

What we are witnessing is not only the result of the actions of the states carrying out these attacks. It is also the result of a larger failure: the failure of other states and institutions to enforce the international legal protections that were meant to shield civilians, hospitals, schools, and cultural heritage from the violence of armed conflict. Yet the destruction unfolding in Iran once again shows that treaties and conventions, however strong in language, remain ineffective without political will. The responsibility does not lie only with the state that violates the law. Under the responsibility to protect doctrine, this responsibility also lies with those states that fail to condemn, restrain, and hold that violator accountable. Where states have the power to restrain and choose not to, they too bear responsibility for the destruction that follows.

This is the deeper crisis exposed by the destruction of heritage in Iran, just as it has been exposed in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, and elsewhere. So long as states with military and political power face no real consequences for disregarding their international obligations, the protections promised by such conventions remain fragile and can be emptied of meaning in times of war.

Cultural heritage, like civilian lives and infrastructure, is not expendable. The United States, the United Nations, and the international community must act now not only to prevent further destruction, but also to show that international commitments to the protection of cultural heritage still carry meaning.

We therefore call upon the government of the United States, the government of Israel and all other states directly involved in or materially supporting military operations connected to this war to

• Immediately cease any attack or military practice that damages, endangers, or unlawfully exposes cultural property in Iran to harm
• Fully integrate cultural heritage protection into military planning, targeting, and operational procedures; and
• Consider themselves accountable both legally and financially for post-war urgent damage documentation and assessment, as well as restoration proportionate to the damage caused by the destruction inflicted on Iranian and world heritage.

We also call upon all States Parties to the 1954 Hague Convention to:

• End any direct or indirect military support to the United States and Israel in the war. States that continue to provide such support risk becoming complicit in the conduct of the war, including the irreversible damage inflicted on Iran’s cultural heritage, particularly given these countries’ open disregard for the norms of war.
  Use the United Nations and UNESCO to publicly and unequivocally condemn the destruction and endangerment of cultural property in Iran, with the same clarity and force shown when non-state actors or weaker states are responsible.
• Use all diplomatic, and political, and institutional means available to press the United States and Israel for compliance with the Convention; and
• Prepare to aid Iran as well as Lebanon and other inflicted countries with post war heritage assessment and restoration, professionally, legally, and financially
• Establish UNESCO emergency funding mechanisms for the restoration of damaged cultural heritage, without being obstructed by sanctions or financial restrictions on Iran.

We also call upon UNESCO, the United Nations, ICOMOS, ICOM, Blue Shield International, and relevant international legal and accountability bodies to:

• Hold all nation-states accountable to the same standards of critique and pressure, regardless of their political and military power.
• Treat the loss of Iran’s cultural heritage as a matter of international urgency.
• Support emergency documentation, monitoring, and safeguarding efforts, with due diligence.
• Affirm clearly that the intentional targeting or destruction of cultural property, in the absence of imperative military necessity, may constitute a war crime and must be subject to legal accountability.
• Strengthen future preventive and accountability mechanisms, including earlier international action where cultural destruction forms part of broader patterns of grave harm.

1. Mehrnoush Soroush, Assistant Professor of Landscape Archaeology, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
2. Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities, Penn State University
3. Laura McAtackney, Professor of Archaeology, University College Cork
4. Alexander Bauer, Professor of Anthropology, Queens College, CUNY
5. Christine Johnston, Associate Professor of History, Western Washington University
6. Laura Mazow, Associate Professor of Archaeology, East Carolina University
7. Alexis Boutin, Professor of Anthropology , Sonoma State University
8. Seth L. Sanders, McLeod Chair of Classics, Dalhousie University
9. Kelly Britt, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Brooklyn College
10. Katherine Blouin, Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
11. Stephanie Selover, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Washington
12. Catherine Kearns, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Chicago
13. Sepideh Maziar, Senior Researcher in Archaeology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Archaeological Sciences Department, Institute of Near Eastern Archaeology
14. Matthew W. Stolper, Professor Emeritus of Assyriology, University of Chicago
15. Persis Berlekamp, Associate Professor Emerita of Art History, The University of Chicago; Visiting Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Berkeley
16. Touraj Daryaee, Director of the Center for Persian Studies, University of California, Irvine
17. James Osborne, Associate Professor of Archaeology; Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
18. Lawrence Rothfield, Associate Professor Emeritus of Literature, University of Chicago
19. Helga Anetshofer, Lecturer in Turkish, University of Chicago
20. Marie-Laure Chambrade, Researcher in Archaeology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
21. Maria Pia Maiorano, Researcher in Archaeology, Czech Academy of Sciences
22. Rebecca Graff, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Lake Forest College
23. Jeffrey A. Becker, Lecturer in Archaeology, Binghamton University – SUNY
24. Sarah Kielt Costello, Professor of Art History, University of Houston – Clear Lake
25. Salah Ebrahimipour, Researcher in Archaeology, University of Oxford
26. Judith A. Lerner, Research Associate in Art History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
27. Mustafa Ahmad, Postdoctoral Researcher in Archaeology, Goethe-University Frankfurt, Institute of Archaeological Sciences
28. Soyoon Ryu, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
29. Francis Deblauwe, Director, The Iraq War & Archaeology
30. Kiersten Neumann, Curator, Research Associate, and Lecturer in Art History, University of Chicago
31. Elizabeth Marlowe, Professor of Art and Museum Studies, Colgate University
32. Rosemary Joyce, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of California, Berkeley
33. Azam Khatam, Editor in chief GlobIS Review, University of Toronto
34. Nahid Siamdoust, Assistant Professor of Media & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin
35. Alireza Doostdar, Associate Professor of Islamic Studies Anthropology, The University of Chicago
36. Mohammad Hossein Taheri, Ph.D in Archaeology, UBC , Vancouver, Canada
37. Yvette Hunt, Honorary Research Fellow in Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, The University of Queensland
38. Bijan Rouhani, Senior Researcher in Archaeology and Project Manager, University of Oxford
39. Marjan Mashkour, Professor of Archaeology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
40. Ali Zalaghi, Academic Assistant in Archaeology , Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
41. Denis Hermann, Chargé de recherche in History, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
42. Samantha Emmanuel, Conservator, Private practice
43. Zahra Hashemi, Researcher, Louvre Museum
44. Boucharlat Rémy, Honorary Senior Researcher in Archaeology, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
45. Natascha Bagherpour Kashani, Curator, Archaeological Museum Frankfurt
46. Camille Rhoné-Quer, Assistant Professor in History, Aix-Marseille University
47. Parsa Ghasemi, Researcher in Archaeology, Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne
48. Abigail Balbale, Associate Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
49. Austin O’Malley, Assistant Professor of Persian Literature, University of Chicago
50. Ervand Abrahamian, Professor Emeritus of History, City University of New York
51. Arang Keshavarzian, Professor of Comparative Politics, New York University
52. Abbas Amanat, Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University
53. Reinhard Bernbeck, Professor Emeritus of Western Asian Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin
54. Anna-Latifa Mourad-Cizek, Assistant Professor of Egyptian Archaeology, University of Chicago
55. Naomi Miller, Senior Research Scientist, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
56. Naghmeh Mahzounzadeh, PhD in Archaeology, Ca Foscari university of Venice
57. Farshid Emami, Associate Professor of Art History, Rice University
58. Holly Pittman, Professor of Humanities and History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
59. Gabriel Winant, Associate Professor of History, University of Chicago
60. Margaret Geoga, Assistant Professor, ISAC and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Chicago
61. Eskandar Mokhtari Taleghani, Professor, Azad University, Iran
62. Guiti Etemad, Former professor and senior urban planner, Tehran Watch Institute
63. Oya Topcuoglu Judd, Associate Professor of Turkish, Northwestern University
64. Emily Miller Bonney, Emerita Professor, Art History, California State University Fullerton
65. Lara Fabian, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
66. Maziar Behrooz, Professor of History, San Francisco State University
67. Andrei Pop, Professor and chair, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
68. Hadi Enayat, Assistant Professor, The Agha Khan University
69. Mateo Farzaneh, Professor and chair, Department of History, Northeastern Illinois University
70. Siavash Samei, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Centre College
71. Nayereh Tohidi, Professor Emerita, Gender and Development Studies, California State University, Northridge
72. Azadeh Kian, Professor Emerita of Sociology, Université Paris Cité
73. Sanaz Sohrabi, Assistant Professor, Concordia University, Montreal
74. Rasmus C. Elling, Associate Professor, Head of Middle Eastern Section, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
75. Mojtaba Mahdavi, Professor, Political Science, University of Alberta, Canada
76. Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, Professor of Historical Studies and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
77. Alexander Jabbari, Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota
78. Samuel Hodgkin, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Yale University
79. Manijeh Mannani, Dean and Professor, English and Comparative Literature, Athabasca University
80. Michael Frishkopf, Professor of Music and Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta
81. Roger Matthews, Professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Reading, UK
82. Leila Amineddoleh, Adjunct Professor, New York University and Fordham School of Law
83. Derek Fincham, Professor, South Texas College of Law Houston
84. Susan Pollock, Professor Emeritus of Western Asian Archaeology, Freie Universität Berlin
85. Danielle Aubert, Professor of Practice in the Arts, University of Chicago
86. Erin L. Thompson, Professor of Art Crime, City University of New York
87. Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer, Assistant Professor, History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, New York University
88. Catherine Marro, Senior Researcher, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
89. Peyman Jafari, Assistant Professor of History and International Relations, The College of William & Mary
90. Ann McDougall, Professor of History, University of Alberta
91. Ali Mousavi, Adjunct Professor of Iranian Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
92. Golnar Nikpour, Associate Professor of History, Dartmouth College
93. Hassan Masoud, Lecturer of Philosophy, University of Alberta, Canada
94. Manijeh Moradian, Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Barnard College, Columbia University
95. Maral Schumann, PhD Scholar & Research Associate, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
96. Mark B. Garrison, Professor of Art History, Trinity University
97. Maryam Moshaver, Professor of Music Theory, University of Alberta
98. Persis Karim , Professor and Director Emeritus, Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies, San Francisco State University
99. Zainab Saleh, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Haverford College
100. Alisse Waterston, Professor of Anthropology Emerita, CUNY, John Jay College
101. Afshin Matin-asgari, Professor of Middle East History, California State University, Los Angeles
102. W. James Carter II, Researcher, California State University, Los Angeles
103. Ali Banuazizi, Research Professor of Political Science, Boston College
104. Ali Akbar Mahdi, Emeritus, Professor of Sociology, Ohio Wesleyan University
105. Lior Sternfeld, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Penn State
106. Charles Hirschkind, Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
107. Megan Perry, Professor of Biological Anthropology, East Carolina University
108. Mehran Kamrava, Professor of Government, Georgetown University in Qatar
109. Emrullah Kalkan, Asst. Prof. Dr., Hitit University
110. Seema Golestaneh, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University
111. Souad Azizi , Professor, Hassan II University of Casablanca
112. Paola Rivetti, Associate professor of Politics and International Relations, Dublin City University
113. Robert Freilich , Independent scholar, Retired
114. Maria Bianca D’Anna, PhD
115. Anne Meneley, Professor of Anthropology, Trent University
116. Omid safi, Professor of Iranian Studies, Duke University
117. Moya Carey, Museum Curator, Dublin
118. Niki Akhavan, Associate Professor and Chair of Media and Communication Studies, The Catholic University of America
119. Nina Mazhjoo, Post doc Fellow, Sorbonne university
120. Narmin Ismayilova, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford
121. Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor of Political Science , University of Toronto
122. Jasamin Rostam-Kolayi, Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton
123. Ehsan Kashfi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Copenhagen
124. Johnny Samuele Baldi, Researcher, French CNRS – Archéorient Lab, Lyon
125. Negar Habibi, Lecturer of Iranian Studies, University of Geneva
126. Luneau Elise, Research fellow, CNRS, UMR 8215
127. Diane Riskedahl, Lecturer of Anthropology, City University of New York
128. Jessica Copley, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Lethbridge
129. Mary-Anne McTrowe, Fine Arts Technician, Art Department , University of Lethbridge
130. Amy Mack, Assistant Professor of New Media, University of Lethbridge
131. Allison Mickel, Chair of Archaeological Science and Technologies, Georgia Institute of Technology
132. Mehrdad Samadzadeh, Historian
133. Elena Rova, Associate professor of Near Eastern Archaeology, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy
134. Claudia Yaghoobi, Lecturer and Director, Center for the Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
135. Kazem Kardavani, Sociologist and Researcher
136. Abazar Shobairi, Research Associate, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens
137. Maja Gori, Associate Professor, University of Trento
138. Asef Bayat, Professor of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
139. Linda Herrera, Professor of Comparative and International Education, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
140. Fatemeh Shams, Associate professor of Persian literature , University of Pennsylvania
141. Saeed Paivandi, Sociologist, Professor, University of Lorraine (France)
142. Armando Anzellini, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Lehigh University
143. Esmaeil Izadi, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Victoria
144. Janet Afary, Professor of Religious Studies and History, University of California Santa Barbara
145. GJ Breyley, Adjunct Associate Professor, Adelaide University
146. Mariya Antonosyan, Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
147. Maryam Ekhtiar, Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
148. Pam J. Crabtree, Professor or Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, NYU
149. Mansoureh Shojaee, Visiting researcher, social study department, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
150. Yousef Moradi, Research Fellow, SOAS University of London
151. Sara Ailshire, PhD, Independent Scholar
152. Hossein Samei, Associate Teaching Professor, Emory University
153. Maureen Meyers, Director of Archaeology, New South Associates, Inc.
154. Elham Ghasidian, Assistant Professor, Neanderthal Museum
155. Ferida Afary, Independent scholar, Los Angeles
156. Ali A. Kiafar, Architect and urban planner, University of California-Riverside
157. Hannah Chazin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
158. Kathryn Babayan, Professor of History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
159. Norma Claire Moruzzi, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois Chicago
160. Anne H. Betteridge, Professor Emerita of Middle Eastern and North African Studies, University of Arizona
161. Mehdi Mortazavi, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
162. Margaret Power, Professor of History, Illinois Institute of Technology
163. Fariba Mosapour Negari, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Sistan and Baluchestan
164. Golbarg Rekabtalaei, Associate Professor of History, Seton Hall University
165. Van Gosse, Professor of History Emeritus, Franklin & Marshall College
166. David McDonald, Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University
167. Claire Panetta, Assistant Professor of International and Global Studies, The University of the South
168. Suad Joseph, Distinguished Research Professor, Emerita, University of California, Davis
169. Pooya Mirzaei, Researcher, Institute for the History of Science, University of Tehran
170. Reza Zia-Ebrahimi, Reader in the History of Nationalism and Race, King’s College London
171. Mariano J. Aznar, Professor of Public International Law, Universitat Jaume I, Spain
172. Mehr Azar Soheil, Independent Scholar, Cultural Heritage Preservation
173. Antigoni Zournatzi, Director of Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
174. Lori Khatchadourian, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Cornell University
175. Marral Shamshiri, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Exeter
176. Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
177. Laura Bier, Associate Professor of History, Georgia Tech
178. Beth Derderian, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies & Anthropology, Brandeis University
179. Kourosh Mohammadkhani, Associate Professor of Archaeology, Shahid Beheshti University, Iran
180. Mana Kia, Associate Professor, Columbia University
181. Salah Ebrahimipour, Researcher, University of Oxford
182. Matthew Ong, Assyriologist, Independent scholar
183. Shahin Garakani Dashteh, Junior Researcher in Archaeology, Goethe University Frankfurt
184. Georg Cyrus, Post Doc, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Copenhagen University
185. Soheil Dashti, Ph.D, Urban Resilience and Disaster Prevention Researcher, The University of Tokyo
186. Leah Bernardo-Ciddio, PhD, Independent Researcher
187. Johanna Lhuillier, Researcher, CNRS Archéorient
188. Stephen Freeman, Urban Planner, M.S.U.P., Columbia University
189. Hossein Vahedi, Director of the Sefidkuh Makran Project, Freelance archaeologist
190. Mette Thuesen, Project curator, British Museum
191. Michael P. Lewis, Assistant Investigator in Mesopotamian Archaeology and Laboratory Studies, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
192. Jessica Tilley, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Centre College
193. Behzad Borhan, Course Lecturer of Persian Language, McGill University
194. Sébastien Gondet, researcher in archaeology, CNRS – Archeorient Lab (Lyon, France)
195. Friederike Jürcke, Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
196. Hamed Kazemzadeh, Adjunct Professor, University of Calgary
197. Melania Zingarello, Postdoctoral Researcher, CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), CEPAM UMR 7264
198. Petra M. Creamer, Assistant Professor of the Ancient Near East, Emory University
199. Archivio Temporale di Logiche Arché e Storia, Independent Scholar
200. Prudence Harper, Curator Emerita, Metropolitan Museum of Art
201. Hassan Fazeli Nashli, Associate Professor of Archaeology, University of Tehran
202. Janna Haider, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Loyola University Maryland
203. Teresa Meade, Professor Emeritus of Latin American History, Union College
204. Christopher Helali, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society
205. Mohammad Ataie, Lecturer in History, University of Massachusetts Amherst
206. Leah Shopkow, Professor of History, Indiana University Bloomington
207. Beverly R. Voloshin, Professor of English, emerita, San Francisco State University
208. Thera Webb, Archivist, MIT
209. David Nasaw, Professor Emeritus of History, City University of New York
210. Aaron Jesch, Adjunct Instructor of History, Washington State University Vancouver
211. Melanie J. Newton, Professor of History and Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto
212. James Borchert, Professor Emeritus of History, Cleveland State University
213. Jeremy Kuzmarov, Adjunct Professor of American History, Brooklyn College; Tulsa Community College
214. Judith E Tucker, Professor Emerita of History, Georgetown University
215. Grey Osterud, PhD, independent historian and freelance editor
216. John McNeill, Professor of History, Georgetown University
217. Jeremy Zallen, Associate Professor of History, Lafayette College
218. Dennis Deslippe, Professor of American Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
219. Joshua Brown, Professor of History Emeritus, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
220. Derek DeMello, Instructor, University of Maine
221. Paul Ortiz, Professor of Labor History, Cornell University
222. Ariel Salzmann, Associate Professor of Islamic and World History, Queen’s University
223. Shailaja Paik, Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
224. Jon Green, Ph.D., Independent Scholar
225. William V. Hudon, Professor emeritus of history, Commonwealth University-Bloomsburg
226. Sarah Maza, Professor Emerita in Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University
227. Will Glover, Professor of History, University of Michigan
228. Hasia Diner, Professor Emerita of American History, New York University
229. Vladimir Solonari, Professor of History, University of Central Florida
230. Phil Rubio, Professor of History, North Carolina Central University
231. Joel Beinin, Professor Emeritus of History and Professor of Middle East History , Stanford University
232. Stephen S. Gosch, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
233. Alan Wallach, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, The College of William and Mary
234. Michael Allen, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, West Virginia University
235. Alejandra Bronfman, Professor of History, University at Albany SUNY
236. Grover Furr, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Montclair State University
237. Philip Chassler, Retired Instructor in American Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston
238. Mark Selden, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton
239. Rebecca Lowen, Adjunct Professor, Metropolitan Stars University
240. Jennifer Nelson, Professor of History, University of Redlands
241. Simon Jackson, Assistant Professor of History, University of Birmingham UK
242. David Lelyveld, Professor Emeritus of History, William Paterson University
243. Leah DeVun, Professor of History, Rutgers University
244. Gregory Sean Kealey, Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Brunswick
245. Les Robinson, Lecturer in the History of Science, Harvard University
246. David Suisman, Professor of History, University of Delaware
247. Patti Kameya, Independent Scholar
248. Marjorie Lasky, Professor Emerita of History, Diablo Valley College
249. Alex Zukas, Professor Emeritus of History, National University
250. Richard E. Rubenstein, Professor Emeritus of Conflict Resolution and Public Affairs, George Mason University
251. Francis Shor, Emeritus Professor, Wayne State University
252. Lawrence Wittner, Professor Emeritus of History, State University of New York at Albany
253. Norman Markowitz, Professor of History, Rutgers University
254. Mary A. Valante, Professor of History, Appalachian State University
255. DJ Polite, Assistant Professor of History, Augusta University
256. A. Tom Grunfeld, Teaching Professor Emeritus, Empire State College/SUNY
257. Ruth Rosen, Professor Emerita of History, U.C. Davis
258. Fraser Ottanelli, Professor of History, University of South Florida
259. Kirstin Ringelberg, Professor of Art History, Elon University
260. Megan Raby, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
261. Kathy Kelly, honorary doctor of humanities, Lewis University, World BEYOND War
262. Kim Compoc, Associate Professor of History, University of Hawai‘i – West O‘ahu
263. Leila J Rupp, Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara
264. Morag Kersel, Professor of Archaeology, DePaul University
265. Robert Cliver, Professor of History, Cal Poly Humboldt
266. Behzad Mofidi-Nasrabadi, Professor of Archaeology, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
267. Stephen Cole, Professor Emeritus of History, Notre Dame de Namur University
268. Andrew H. Lee, historian
269. Fernando Pérez-Montesinos, Associate Professor of History, UCLA
270. Alice Slater, Attorney at Law
271. Penny Von Eschen, Professor of History, University of Virginia
272. Robert W. Cherny, Professor emeritus of history, San Francisco State University
273. Stephan Miescher, Professor of History, University of California, Santa Barbara
274. Bill Issel, Professor of History Emeritus, San Francisco State University
275. Niloufar-Lily Soltani, Author
276. Laurie Green, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas
277. Julia Mickenberg, Professor of American Studies, University of Texas
278. Cyrus Bina, Distinguished Research Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
279. Maria Mitchell, Professor of History, Franklin & Marshall College
280. Mahmood Monshipouri, Professor, San Francisco State University
281. Ellie Walsh, Scholar, Governors State University
282. Wilson Jacob, Professor of History, Concordia University, Montreal
283. Sarah Churchill, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Fairfield University
284. Ruth Marshall, Associate Professor of Religion and Political Science, University of Toronto
285. Robin Marie Averbeck, Lecturer in History, CSU Chico
286. Matthew Canepa, Professor and Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Presidential Chair in Art History and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, University of California, Irvine
287. Arezoo Isalmi, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
288. Sinclair Thomson, Associate Professor of History, New York University
289. Laura Mason, Teaching Professor, Johns Hopkins University
290. Alice Sowaal, Associate Professor of Philosophy, San Francisco State University
291. Lucia Volk, Professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies, San Francisco State University
292. Kyle Olson, Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
293. Laura Lisy-Wagner, Associate Professor of History, San Francisco State University
294. Alan Singer, Professor Emeritus of Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Hofstra University
295. Moji Agha , Independent Scholar, National Peace and Democracy Coalition of Iran
296. Ishiba Hinojosa Baliño, Consultant archaeologist, Durham University
297. Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
298. Rachel Yuen-Collingridge, Honorary postdoctoral fellow, Macquarie University
299. Mona Tajali, Lecturer in Gender and Politics, Stanford University
300. Hossein Davoudi, Independent Scholar, Bioarchaeology Laboratory, Central Laboratory, University of Tehran
301. Katherine Rose, Director of Programs, Institute for Field Research
302. Peyman Jafari, Assistant Professor of History, William and Mary Colledge
303. Fiona Nicoll, Professor of Political Science, University of Alberta
304. Vinay Lal, Professor of History, UCLA
305. Naima Benkari, Associate prof, Sultan Qaboos University
306. Scott Laderman, Professor of History, University of Minnesota, Duluth
307. Liat Spiro, Assistant Professor of History, College of the Holy Cross
308. Jerise Fogel, Adjunct Professor in Classics, Montclair State University
309. Jill Abraham, Independent Scholar
310. Phoebe Ignatia, Conservator, Leather Conservation Centre
311. Eleanor Robson, Professor Emerita in Ancient Middle Eastern History, University College London
312. Suzy Kim, Professor of Korean History, Rutgers University
313. Caroline Sandes, independent scholar, lecturer, Kingston University
314. Sonja Brentjes, Professor Emeritus, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
315. Marc Van De Mieroop, Professor of History, Columbia University
316. David Huyssen, Visiting Scholar, New School For Social Research
317. Rana Brentjes, Independent scholar
318. Nathan Godfried, Professor Emeritus, University of Maine
319. Diana Bencatel, Collections Conservator, Private Practice
320. Elena Paskaleva, Assistant Professor Critical Heritage Studies, Leiden University
321. Denise Lynn, Professor of History, University of Southern Indiana
322. William Smaldone, Professor of History, Willamette University
323. Ana Figueiredo, Associate Professor, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile

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