July 2024 | BIPS Student Travel Grant Preservation’ and Musical Hierarchies: Transmission of Iranian Traditional Music in France and Canada. Summary of Topic: My doctoral research focuses on the transmission of Iranian classical music outside...
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Royal Women, Armies and Warfare in Hellenistic Iran: who had more Power?
October 2022 | BIPS Student Travel Grant Royal Women, Armies and Warfare in Hellenistic Iran: who had more Power? Report: The British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) Travel Grant was used to fund my attendance to the Classical Association (CA)...
Revolutionaries without Borders: A transnational history of the Iranian guerrilla movement (1963-1979)
July 2026 | BIPS Student Travel Grant Revolutionaries without Borders: A transnational history of the Iranian guerrilla movement (1963-1979) Summary of topic: This project examines how Iranian guerrilla groups built and sustained connections with...
A Typology of Sogdian Cultic Spaces from the 5th to the 8th Century: Material Culture, Cultic Practices, and Sociopolitical Significance
May 2026 | BIPS Student Travel Grant A Typology of Sogdian Cultic Spaces from the 5th to the 8th Century: Material Culture, Cultic Practices, and Sociopolitical Significance Summary of topic: Early medieval Sogdiana, located in present-day Uzbekistan,...
Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan)
January 2025 | BIPS Travel Grant Kani Shaie Archaeological Project (Iraqi Kurdistan) Summary of topic: This fieldwork project included my participation in excavations at the archaeological site of Kani Shaie in Iraqi Kurdistan’s Sulaymaniyah Province. This small site...
PhD research conducted at Yale University and the Rockefeller Archive Center
May 2025 | BIPS Travel Grant PhD research conducted at Yale University and the Rockefeller Archive Center Summary of topic: My PhD thesis examines the role of informal actors in shaping relations between Iran and the United States during the late Pahlavi period, ca....
Travel to Ashmolean Museum for pXRF analysis of pins for dissertation research
May 2025 | BIPS Travel Grant Travel to Ashmolean Museum for pXRF analysis of pins for dissertation research Summary of topic: This research studied pins from burial contexts in Iron Age northwestern Iran and examined properties including composition, style, and burial...
A study of Ahmad Dānish’s legacy within the context of late 19th-century Persian-speaking intellectual trends
September 2024 | BIPS Travel Grant A study of Ahmad Dānish’s legacy within the context of late 19th-century Persian-speaking intellectual trends Summary of topic: My doctoral dissertation explores the place of Ahmad Dānish, a 19th-century Bukharan intellectual, within...
Rome and Sasanian Iran: Two Conferences and a Workshop
April 2024 | BIPS Travel Grant Rome and Sasanian Iran: Two Conferences and a Workshop Summary of topic: In Leeds, Domiziana Rossi and I hosted four dedicated panels which examined the theme of ‘crises’ within the context of Roman and Sasanian relations. In Cardiff,...
Decline of Iran in the Writings of Contemporary Iranian Intellectuals
April 2024 | BIPS Travel Grant Decline of Iran in the Writings of Contemporary Iranian Intellectuals Summary of topic: I explore the concept of the decline of Persian civilization through the writings of six Iranian intellectuals: Ahmad Fardid, Jalal Al-e Ahmad, Ali...
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