February 2024 | BIPS Travel Grant Rural life in a changing world: new light on economic development and inequality in Central Asia under the Kushan Empire The most important part of one’s PhD project is to try to get to know the region you are working on, particularly...
October 2023 | BIPS Travel Grant The Hasanlu Ivories viewed through a New Materialist lens My research focusses on the ivories recovered during the excavations of Hasanlu in north western Iran. These were largely recovered from the demolition layers of c.800BC, in the...
October 2022 & February 2023 | BIPS Travel Grant International Medieval Congress (IMC), Leeds, 3rd – 6th July 2023: Panel Strand – ‘Roman and Sasanian Networks and Entanglements’ In 2021, Domiziana and I decided to establish a dedicated panel strand towards...
February 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant Textual History of the Shāhnāma in Fourteenth-Century Shiraz My study deals with Persian manuscripts of fourteenth-century Shiraz, which, with their special taste in literature and book art, heavily influenced Timurids, and via them,...
May 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant Documenting the disappearing archaeological heritage of Seeb (Muscat, Oman) The aims of the project are to explore the threatened archaeological heritage of Seeb (a suburb of Muscat in Oman) and to build on the existing community interest...
October 2022 | BIPS Travel Grant The Iconography of War and Violence in Persia and the Near East The travel grant offered by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) was used to enable me to present an in-person paper for the Lyceum Classics Community Seminar...
October 2021 | BIPS Travel Grant Persianate legacies in post-Soviet Central Asia and on contemporary Iran-Uzbekistan relations The three-week-long—travel days included—fieldwork in Tashkent, Uzbekistan has been a culmination of some two years of travel-planning and...
May 2021 | BIPS Travel Grant The BIPS travel grant received in May 2021 allowed me to undertake visits to the Staatsbibliotek in Berlin and to the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) library in New York, to examine ‘in the flesh’ some manuscripts of Shahin-e...
October 2021 | BIPS Travel Grant 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice and Padua (22nd -27th August 2022) The travel grant offered by the British Institute of Persian Studies (BIPS) was used for my attendance to the 24th International...
October 2021 | BIPS Travel Grant I am in the final year of PhD studies and the core of my project is a detailed re-evaluation of the Vank Cathedral (Surb Amenaprkič) in Isfahan (1655-1664/1065-1074) in the context of Safavid art. The art and architecture...