Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased and proud to announce a new endowment at UNC-Chapel Hill for the establishment of Roshan Institute Professorship in Persian Studies, in the College of Arts and Sciences.
This grant creates the first Persian studies endowed professorship at Carolina. Housed in the Department of Asian Studies, the new faculty member will teach Persian language and culture courses, and enable the university to offer a minor in Persian Studies.
In 2013, Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute established an endowment for Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies for graduate students at UNC-Chapel Hill. The two endowments combined bring the Institute’s total gifts to $1 million in support of the university’s growing Persian studies program.
Chaired by Dr. Carl Ernst, William Kenan Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, the Persian studies program is supported by the department of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences and the Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations.