Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate former fellow, Kristian Peterson, on his new position as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Dr. Peterson successfully completed his Ph.D. degree in 2012 with a dissertation on “The Great Transformation: Contours of the Sino-Islamic Tradition.” Current Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute fellow, Jipar Duishembieva, continues to make progress on her dissertation on “Central Asian Intellectuals of Semirech’e Oblast of Russian Turkestan, 1905-1924.”
The Persian and Iranian Studies Program also reported that Dr. Samad Alavi, Assistant Professor of Persian Civilization, was recently appointed as Assistant Editor for Literature and Culture for “Iranian Studies.” Dr. Alavi joined the University of Washington in Fall 2013 and has been offering a number of new courses exploring Persian literature and the Iranian Revolution. Director of the Persian and Iranian Studies Program, Dr. Joel Walker, will also teach a new course on the “Empires of Ancient Iran” in Fall 2014.