Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate Soodabeh Malekzadeh, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History at UC Irvine, on receiving a summer fellowship to support her doctoral research on the Sasanian era. Ms. Malekzadeh’s dissertation, entitled “Bahram V: The Romantic Hunter-King or a Judo-Arab Emperor?” will cover the reign of Bahram V, his biography, the cultural, military and religious connections and relations of the 5th-century Persian Empire with the Roman Empire as well as Bahram’s enduring legacy as a romantic hunter-king in Persian literature and art. She is working under Professor Touraj Daryaee, Howard C. Baskerville Professor of History, and expects to complete her degree in 2017.
