Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is excited to announce its second endowment to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for the establishment of a new Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellowship in Iranian Linguistics at the Department of Linguistics in the Division of Humanities.
The UCLA Linguistics Department’s doctoral program has consistently been ranked as one of the top two or three such programs in the U.S. The Department began as an interdepartmental graduate master’s program in 1960. A doctoral program was introduced in 1962, a bachelor’s program was added in 1965, and the department was formally established in 1966.
The postdoctoral fellowship will be awarded for a two-year term with the possibility of a one-year extension. The Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Postdoctoral Fellow will be expected to teach courses and conduct research on the linguistic heritage of Iran, focused on Persian and Iranian languages.
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is proud to partner again with UCLA Division of Humanities, where the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies has been established since 2002.