Telephone number:	+31 (0)71 527 2288
E-Mail:	j.t.l.cheung@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Faculty / Department:	Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Leiden Institute for Area Studies, SMES APT
Office Address:	Witte Singel-complex Witte Singel 25/M. de Vrieshof 4 2311 BZ Leiden Room number 1.10

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Fields of interest

Iranian Philology, (History of) Persian Language & Culture, Historiography, History of Iran & Afghanistan, Areal Linguistics & Iranian Dialectology, Pashto, Bactrian, Ossetic, Kurdish, Iranian Religions & Beliefs, Pre-Islamic Iran.

CV

Education
Graduated in Comparative Linguistics at Leiden (1995), Post-graduate Iranian Studies at London-SOAS (1997), PhD at Leiden (1999), Persian Studies at Leiden (2000-2002), Persian Summer Course at Esfahan Univ. (2004)

Employment 
Lecturer (present),
previously:
- Postdoctoral Researcher at Leiden (2000-2003),
- Research Assistant Bactrian & Manichaean Projects (director: Prof. N. Sims-Williams FBA), at London Univ. - SOAS (2003-2008),
- Research Fellow Clarehall (Cambridge, 2005-2008)

Key publications

- “Selected Pashto Problems II: Historical Phonology 1, On vocalism and etyma”, Iranandthe Caucasus 2011.
- “Selected Pashto Problems I: The accent in Pashto”, Persica (23), 2010.
- “Two notes on Bactrian”, Exegisti monumenta: Festschrift in Honour of Nicholas Sims-Williams (edd. Werner Sundermann, Almut Hintze, François de Blois), Wiesbaden 2009.
- Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb. Leiden, Brill 2007 [2006].
- “Sanskrit meh, míh-, meghá- and niméghamāna-, with an excursion on Persian mih”, Indogermanica, Festschrift Gert Klingenschmitt (ed. Günter Schweiger). Taimering 2005.
- Studies in the Historical Development of the Ossetic Vocalism. Wiesbaden 2002.

Grants and awards

2010 “Book of the Year World Prize” (jâyezeh-e jehâni-ye ketâb-e sâl), awarded to the Etymological Dictionary of the Iranian Verb, Tehran.