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Announcement and Call for Applications: Iran Graduate Student Workshop

May 25, 2017

To build bridges across Persian and Iranian Studies programs, scholars
from New York University’s Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Department
and the Gallatin School (ISI-NYU), Princeton University’s Center for
Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, and the University of Pennsylvania’s
Middle East Center announce the */Iran Graduate Student Workshop
/(IGSW)*. The workshop will provide a valuable venue for academic
exchange and production, giving distinguished young scholars of the
field an unrivalled opportunity to present and promote their research.

On *_May 4-5, 2018_*, the University of Pennsylvania will host the
second gathering of this joint workshop, to be followed by similar
meetings at the other campuses every two years. This second workshop in
۲۰۱۸ will consist of PhD students that are near ABD status and preparing
their dissertation proposals (i.e., typically in their 2nd or 3rd year
of graduate work). In addition, the first cohort will participate again,
as discussants, in the 2018 workshop, as they approach the end of their
graduate work.

Applicants for the second round, in 2018, must focus on modern Iran
(roughly 18^th -20^th centuries), other countries of the Persianate
world, or diasporas, or conduct relational histories and comparative
work; and will be drawn from disciplines and programs in the humanities
and social sciences, including anthropology, art history, economics,
history, literature, politics, sociology, and related fields.

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*IGSW Purpose:*

•   To provide graduate students with intellectual feedback on their
research, encompassing both 
area studies and disciplinary critiques,
twice in their graduate student careers.

•   To ensure that graduate students of Iran are aware of, and make
their work accessible to, 
scholars from other parts of “their” area
(i.e., the Middle East broadly defined) as well as from 
their own
discipline, whether it be history, literature, or the social sciences.

•   To use the above points to make sure that graduating scholars who
focus on modern Iran will 
continue to be placed, if not more frequently
placed, in both area studies and disciplinary 
departments.

•   To help doctoral students improve skills in scholarship and teaching.

To apply, please send the materials below by */_August 15, 2017_/*//to
igsw2018@gmail.com <mailto:igsw2018@gmail.com>:

•   One letter of recommendation from an advisor or committee member
supporting the research project and attesting to the student’s good
standing in their program of study.

•   Curriculum vitae

•   Research proposal of 1,000 words on argument, methods, and evidence
to be used in 
dissertation 
Decisions on applications will be sent out
by */_September 30, 2017_/*. If selected by the IGSW committee,
participants will be expected to attend workshops in years 2018 and
۲۰۲۰. Travel and accommodation for accepted applicants will be provided
by the IGSW