Akihiko Yamaguchi received his Ph.D. from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in 2005. He is Associate Professor at the University of the Sacred Heart in Tokyo. His research interests include political history of Kurdistan and social and economic history of Early Modern Iran. His main publications are: “Urban-rural Relations in Early Eighteenth-Century Iran - A Case Study of Settlement Patterns in the Province of Hamadan,” in KONDO Nobuaki (ed.), Persian Documents: Social History of Iran and Turan in the Fifteenth-Nineteenth Centuries, London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003; “A Note on Fruit Cultivation in the Early Eighteenth-Century Hamadan Province”, Eurasian Studies, V/1-2 (2006); “Shah Tahmasp's Kurdish Policy,” Studia Iranica, 41 (2012), pp. 101-132.

Kurdish history

Social and Economic History

Associate Professor, University of the Sacred Heart, Tokyo