Fyza Parviz Jazra

Fyza Parviz Jazra is a PhD student in the History of Science. Her research focuses on the intersections between the intellectual life of Early Modern Europe and the Islamic World. She is particularly interested in astronomy, cartography, cosmography, antiquarianism, and other forms of early modern sciences.

She is a member of an Oxford-sponsored research project titled "Arabic Books and Astronomy in Seventeenth-Century Oxford" to digitize and curate Oriental manuscripts in Astronomy in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. She is also working with Stanford's Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) on the historical significance of the star cluster Pleiades. 

She is also a co-director of the Poetic Media Lab at the Center of Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA) at Stanford, where she has been working on developing the project EpiCConnect—a platform for community college instructors to collaborate and share their pedagogical research.  

Before joining the academic world, Fyza worked as a Software Engineer for ten years. She lives in Palo Alto with her husband and two sons.