Daniel Beckman is the recipient of Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies at UCLA for 2014-2015. He recently completed his fifth year of graduate studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His dissertation research focuses on examining the ways that the Achaemenid Persian empire used written treaties to control the Greek states on the Aegean frontier, and covers a wide range of Iranian, Mesopotamian, and Greek source materials. He will be presenting some of his finding under the title “Achaemenid Satraps and the Aegean Frontier” at the Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference in August 2014.
Daniel Beckman is the recipient of Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies at UCLA for 2014-2015. He recently completed his fifth year of graduate studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. His dissertation research focuses on examining the ways that the Achaemenid Persian empire used written treaties to control the Greek states on the Aegean frontier, and covers a wide range of Iranian, Mesopotamian, and Greek source materials. He will be presenting some of his finding under the title “Achaemenid Satraps and the Aegean Frontier” at the Tenth Biennial Iranian Studies Conference in August 2014.
Sahba Shayani, the 2013-2014 Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Fellow at UCLA, has made significant progress on his Ph.D. research this past year. Entitled “Women in Persian Literature: A Taxonomic Approach Based on Reception Theory,” his dissertation will analyze the representation of women and the feminine in Persian literature.
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate both students on their contributions to Persian Studies and extend its best wishes for the coming year.