Programs
The core program of AIIrS is short-term grant-making for individual scholars. In addition to the individual awards, AIIrS runs a summer Persian language training program in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, for graduate students who are US citizens. Beyond the fellowship programs, AIIrS also supports conferences on Iranian Studies in the US and abroad, and provides occasional funding for projects including publications and exhibitions. It also awards the Roth Prize, funded by the Lois Roth Endowment, in recognition of demonstrated excellence in translating Persian literature into English.
The Institute’s grants and programs aim to create and maintain expertise on an important geographical region, as an aspect of the long-term needs of higher education in international and foreign language studies. The larger objectives of AIIrS are to represent American institutions of higher education and research in the field of Iranian Studies, and to promote the study of Iran as a significant component of global history, thereby exposing new generations of students and scholars to the Persianate world.
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