Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to welcome new Assistant Professor Samad Alavi. Professor Alavi is a scholar of modern Persian literature and will complete his Ph.D. this winter at UC Berkeley. He presented his research on the Iranian critic and poet Mohammad Mokhtari at the 6th biennial conference of the Association for the Study of Persianate Societies in September. Accompanying him were former Roshan Institute Fellows James Gustafson and Stefan Kamola, who presented their own works on Qajar Iran and Persian historiography, respectively. The Institute would like to congratulate the newest Roshan Institute Fellow, Jipar Duishembieva, whose dissertation focuses on the intellectual environment of 20th century Central Asia. The Persian and Iranian Studies Program also announced a complete listing of events for the year.
