Pourshariati was born in
Tehran, Iran, in 1959. She received her master's degree from New York University (NYU) and her PhD from
Columbia University. She is a member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Persianate Studies and
Iran Namag. In 2006, in memory of her father, the late Houshang Pourshariati, Pourshariati established the bi-annual Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award, which has been administered through the
Middle East Studies Association (MESA), ever since. Pourshariati was a visiting fellow at
Princeton University in Summer 2013 and a visiting scholar at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2012. In 2015 to 2016 she was a visiting research scholar at
New York University. From 2000 to 2014 she served in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at
The Ohio State University. ==Works==