RRoshan Cultural Heritage Institute is pleased to announce that Sahba Shayani is the recipient of Roshan Institute Fellowship for Excellence in Persian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, for 2013-2014. Mr. Shayani is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, working on Persian literature and in particular, 19th century Persian poetess Fatemeh Zarrin-Taj Baraghani.
Several other outstanding students have received Roshan Institute Fellowships for Excellence in Persian Studies since its inception in 2002 and have made significant contributions to the field. Among them, Ahmed Alwishah is currently Assistant Professor of History at Pitzer College; David Bennett is a Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy at King’s College London; Ameneh Shervin Emami is Lecturer of Persian Language & Literature at Stanford University; and Daniel Rafinejad is Preceptor in Persian at Harvard University. Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute would like to congratulate them on their tremendous accomplishments and looks forward to following their continued success and achievements in Persian Studies.