Afsaneh Haddadian was recently selected as the 2014-2015 Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute Fellow. Currently a first year Ph.D. student in the Jackson School for International Studies at the University of Washington, Ms. Haddadian will focus her research on local and sub-national governance in Iran and Afghanistan, and children’s rights in Iran.
Jipar Duishembieva, this year’s Roshan Institute Fellow, is making continued progress toward the completion of her dissertation “Central Asian Intellectuals of Semirech’e Oblast of Russian Turkestan, 1905-1924.” In investigating the role of Muslim intellectuals and education in Central Asia, she uses Persian-language sources, prose and poetry from 16th – 20th centuries such as Mantiq at tayir, Qissa-i ghurbā vā mush, Šāhnāmeh, Layla and Majnun, Khosrow and Shirin that were part of the traditional school curriculum at the end of the nineteenth century on the territory of nowadays Kyrgyzstan.