Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute is delighted to share news about some of its Fellows and their recent accomplishments.
Nicholas Boylston obtained his Ph.D. in Theological and Religious Studies from Georgetown University. His area of specialization is Persian literature and Islamic intellectual history through the lenses of religious, intellectual and literary pluralism, and he wrote his dissertation on “Writing the Kaleidoscope of Reality, the Significance of Diversity in 6th-12th century Persian Metaphysical Literature: Sana’i, ‘Attar and ‘Ayn al-Qudat Hamadani.” Dr. Boylston is currently Lecturer (half-time) in the Committee on the Study of Religion, Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, and Visiting Fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions, at Harvard University.
Safoura Nourbakhsh successfully defended her dissertation on “Expressions of Gender and Sexuality in Persian Sufism” and completed her Ph.D. in Women’s Studies from the University of Maryland (UMD). Dr. Nourbakhsh is the Project Manager of the Persian translation and adaptation of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a digital interactive project hosted by UMD.
Vahideh Rasekhi (Linguistics, Stony Brook University) and Tytus Mikolajczak (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago) are also making progress toward the completion of their doctoral dissertations.
Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to commend all Fellows for their contributions to Persian Studies scholarship and wishes them continued success.