Nilou Shiralian

Niloufar (Nilou) Shiralian is one of the Programs and Administration Coordinators for the Pourdavoud Institute for the Study of the Iranian World, the Yarshater Center for the Study of Iranian Literary Traditions, and the Jeffrey P. Cunard Center for Global Antiquity. Nilou received her B.A. in History and Gender Studies with a minor in Classical Civilization at UCLA. She dedicated her undergraduate career to serving museum audiences, previously working at the Hammer Museum as an assistant for the Public Programs department. Through her involvement with the History Honor Society and Classical Society, she also coordinated co-curricular programming for the History and Classics departments.

Nilou’s historical interests include the material conditions of women from antiquity through the modern world, cultural exchange and diplomacy between the Middle East and the West, and all things Greek and Roman. She has been published in Quaestio, UCLA’s History undergraduate journal, and continues to write in her free time.