Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Richard Forster and Kavon Hooshiar on receiving the first Roshan Institute Fellowships for Persian Language and Culture in spring 2014. These fellowships are awarded to graduate students enrolled in Persian language and/or culture courses offered by the Persian Language, Culture, and Linguistics Program on the basis of their academic performance and research efforts in the field of Persian Studies.

Mr. Forster is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History whose focus is on the broader Persian-speaking world. Mr. Hooshiar is pursuing a Master’s degree in the Department of Linguistics with an interest in Persian syntax and sentence structure.