Dr. Jenny Rose is a part-time Adjunct Professor of Zoroastrian Studies in the Department of Religion at Claremont Graduate University (and Pomona College). She teaches one class each year as a joint undergraduate/graduate class. Jenny holds an M.A. in Religious Studies from SOAS (University of London), and a Ph.D. in Ancient Iranian Studies from Columbia University, New York. Her doctoral dissertation, The Image of Zoroaster: The Persian Mage Through European Eyes, was published in 2000. Since then, Dr. Rose has produced three books relating to the religion: Zoroastrianism: An Introduction (2011); Zoroastrianism: A Guide for the Perplexed (2011); and, Between Boston and Bombay: Cultural and Commercial Encounters of Yankees and Parsis, 1771-1865 (2019). She has also published many articles.

Dr. Rose has lectured extensively at academic institutions, museums, and Zoroastrian Association events in North America and Europe; she also works as a study leader for tours visiting important archaeological, cultural and devotional sites in Central Asia, Iran and along the Chinese Silk Road. She was one of advisors for the original “Everlasting Flame: Zoroastrianism in History and Imagination” exhibition, held at SOAS, London, in 2013, and contributed to the conference that launched “The Everlasting Flame Programme” in New Delhi in March 2016.    

Dr. Rose was the first “Zoroastrian” representative on the North American Interfaith Network, run out of St. John’s Cathedral, New York, in 1988. In the intervening years she has spent long hours assisting students from universities other than her own, fellow academics, journalists, diplomats, and TV producers, including those working on the ‘Top Gear Middle East/Nativity Special’ (supposedly following in the footsteps of the Three Wise Men), and more recently, the National Geographic ‘Story of God’ with Morgan Freeman. She enjoys exchanging ideas and discussing aspects of the religion with colleagues.