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Thanks to a gift in 2018 from the Trust of Morvarid Guiv, the Morvarid Guiv Graduate Fellowship in Zoroastrian Studies has been established in UCLA’s Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World. The fellowship will support graduate students studying the Zoroastrian religion, its ancient history, languages, and scriptures. To read the full story…

UCLA has launched a national and international search for a top post-doctoral scholar who will be the inaugural recipient of the Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Contemporary Iranian Studies. To read the full story featured in UCLA College News, please click here.

The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, in conjunction with the Program of Iranian Studies, at UCLA, invite applications for a postdoctoral position in the history and culture of modern Iran, effective July 1, 2019. The Program of Iranian Studies at UCLA, established in 1963, is the largest and most comprehensive doctoral programs of…

At the close of another year, we would like to seize this moment and, on behalf of the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World at UCLA, extend our best wishes for a joyous holiday season. The Center continues to flourish with outstanding scholars working in residence, and stimulating academic programs planned for…

The Pourdavoud Center will host a memorial event to celebrate the life and scholarly contributions of Professor Eshan Yarshater (1920-2018), the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University. Professor Yarshater’s prolific career has had a global impact. At UCLA, he is remembered with the endowed Yarshater Biennial Lecture Series, and at Columbia…

The Pourdavoud Center is proud to announce the addition of two scholars: Dr. Ali Mousavi, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Iranian Archaeology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, has been appointed a Pourdavoud Research Scholar.  In this capacity, Dr. Mousavi will conduct research for the Iranian Archaeology Research Gateway, a project designed to…

Videos of lectures from the 2017-2018 academic year are now available for viewing on the Pourdavoud Center website.  Please click here to view these videos and additional media content in the gallery.  The videos featured include the Pourdavoud Center Lecture Series addresses by Margaret C. Miller, Miguel John Versluys, and Albert de Jong, and presentations…

It is with great sadness that the Pourdavoud Center shares the passing of Professor Ehsan Yarshater, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Columbia University.  The faculty, staff, and affiliates of the Pourdavoud Center extend their deepest sympathy to Professor Yarsharter’s family, friends, colleagues, and students, who are all deeply affected by this…

The Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University has received a $10 million gift to formally endow the center.  Upon receiving this endowment, the center will be renamed as the Ehsan Yarshater Center for Iranian Studies to honor Professor Yarshater, the founding director of the center at Columbia University.  This gift from the Persian Heritage…

The School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London has received a £5 million gift to create the SOAS Shapoorji Pallonji Institute of Zoroastrian Studies.  The institute, to be co-chaired by Dr Sarah Stewart, Lecturer in Zoroastrianism, and Professor Almut Hintze FBA, Zartoshty Brothers Professor of Zoroastrianism, will feature an endowment for the Shapoorji Pallonji Lectureship…