Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to announce that the newly established Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies at the University of Arizona’s Graduate School will be admitting a very limited number of graduate students at the M.A. and Ph.D. level for the 2017-2018 academic year.
The Persian and Iranian Studies degrees will focus specifically on either modern or classical Persian literature and culture, or Iranian (or other Persian speaking societies’) history, religion, social organization, and politics. For both, superior language competency in Persian is expected.
In 2016, the University of Arizona received a multimillion-dollar grant from Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute to establish the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Persian and Iranian Studies. Professor Kamran Talattof, a professor in Persian language and literature, serves as the initial Roshan Institute Chair in Persian and Iranian Studies and Director of the Roshan Graduate Interdisciplinary Program.