Naveed Mansoori has been awarded the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies for the completion of his dissertation during academic year 2017-2018. Mr. Mansoori is a Ph.D. student in Political Science at UCLA. His dissertation entitled, “In Medias Res: Media, Representation, and Authority in Iran, 1941-2009,” focuses on a varied but unified group of writers -Sadeq Hedayat, Ali Shariati and Ahmad Fardid (1909-1994)– who all envisaged their projects as the creation, or recreation, of an Iran which possessed an authentic, Islamic (Shi’a) identity. Mr. Mansoori is expected to defend his dissertation in June 2018.
Established in UCLA Division of Humanities, the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies is intended to support one graduate student each year from across the humanities or social sciences who has an approved dissertation topic focusing on Persian studies.
Learn more about the Elahé Omidyar Mir-Djalali Fellowship at UCLA
