Early career researcher Prizes

Olivia Ramble, PhD 2020, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France

Performative Uses of Monumental Writing in Ancient Iran

Honourable mentions

• Alberto Bernard, MA 2019, University of Padua, Italy, Magi as Mowbed: The Late-Antique Roman Representation of Zoroastrian Clergy

• Mariano Errichiello, PhD 2021, SOAS, University of London UK, The Iranian Root of Ilm-e-Khshnoom: A Comparative Analysis with the Beliefs of the Ābādī Sect

Mahroo Moosavi, PhD 2019, University of Sydney, Australia

Representation of Materiality in 17th Century Safavid Art: An Intertextual Survey of the Epigraphic Programme and Content of the Prayer Hall of Shaykh Lutfullah Mosque

Honourable mentions

• Borna Izadpanah, PhD 2019, University of Reading, UK, Early Persian Printing and Typefounding in Europe

• Cailah Jackson, DPhil 2017, University of Oxford, UK, An Illuminated Muzaffarid Manuscript in the Bodleian Library

Ana Marija Grbanovic, PhD 2020, University of Bamberg, Germany

Ilkhanid Architectural Interiors and their Re-decoration Interventions: Obscurum per Obscurius?

Honourable mentions

• Andrea Luigi Corsi, PhD 2021, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, A Shared Repertoire: Observations on the Stuccoes of the Abbasid Friday Mosques of Isfahan and Nayin

• Fuchsia Hart, DPhil 2020, University of Oxford, UK, The Lustre Tilework from the Tomb of Shaykh ‘Abd al-Samad, Natanz

Julia Hartley, DPhil 2016, University of Oxford, UK

Making (Ancient) History: Women and Power in Jane Dieulafoy’s Parysatis (1890)

Honourable mentions

• Maral Sahebjame, PhD 2020, University of Washington, USA, Marriage as a Public Affair: What Cohabitation Unmasks about Civil-Religious Hybridity in Iranian Law

• Guan Kiong Teh, PhD 2021, University of St Andrews, UK, ‘Middle Eastern Ways of Life’: The Contributions of John Mowlem & Co. Ltd and Iran National to Iranian Soft Power Diplomacy, 1954-66

Maral Sahebjame, PhD 2020, University of Washington, USA

Marriage as a Public Affair: What Cohabitation Unmasks about Civil-Religious Hybridity in Iranian Law

Reza Tabandeh, PhD 2019, University of Exeter, UK

The Role of Gunabadi Sufis in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran

Honourable mention

• Parwana Fayyaz, PhD 2020, University of Cambridge, UK, The Role Played by Absāl in Jāmī’s Salāmān va Absāl

Theresa Zischkin, MA 2019, University of Vienna, Austria

The Timurid Miʿrājnāma Revisited: Visual Idioms Shaping Religious Space

Alberto Bernard, MA 2019, University of Padua, Italy

Magi as Mowbed: The Late-Antique Roman Representation of Zoroastrian Clergy

Honourable mention

Delphine Poinsot, PhD 2018, École Pratique des Hautes Études, France, Zoological Knowledge in Sasanian Iran (224 – 651)

Manuel Giardino, MPhil 2018, University of Oxford, UK

Medicine as an Example of Yuan-Ilkhanid Intellectual Exchange

Honourable mention

Alberto Bernard, MA 2019, University of Padua, Italy, Magi as Mowbed: The Late-Antique Roman Representation of Zoroastrian Clergy

Leonard Michael, MLitt 2019, University of St Andrews, UK

Khaterat-e Hitler by Mohsen Jahansuz: A Persian Adaptation of “My Struggle”?

and

Robert Steele, PhD 2019, University of Exeter, UK

‘A Monarch Better than his Crown’: The Coronation Ceremony of 1967

Nazli Nikjamal, PhD 2018, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

The Notion of Collective Identity in the Literature of Authors of Iranian Origin in Germany

Honourable mention

Sheida Dayani, PhD 2018, Harvard University, USA, Andarunis and Birunis of Iranian Plots: Traditional Architecture in Modern Theatre

Natasha Morris, PhD 2019, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK

The King and I: Qajar Portrait Miniatures

Honourable mention

Shutong Liu, MA 2019, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, UK, Chinese Landscape Elements in the Ilkhanid Manuscript Illustrations: Sources, Adaptations and Perceptions

Andras Barati, PhD 2019, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary

The Characteristics and Formulary of Nādir Shāh’s Royal Decrees

Honourable mention

Arash Poorakbar, PhD 2022, University of Szeged, Hungary, Zīj-e Īlkḥānī: A Study on the Authenticity of its Manuscripts

Jamie O’Connell, MA 2017, SOAS, University of London, UK, The Nature of Ritual in the Avestan Hymn to Haurvatāt

Zhan Zhang, PhD 2016, Harvard University, USA, Secular Documents in Khotanese: How to Edit Them and What Do They Tell Us?

Honourable mentions

• Mariano Errichiello, MA 2017, SOAS, University of London, UK, Reactive to Creative: a Khshnoomist Perspective of the Evil Force

• Peter Zilberg, PhD 2018, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, On Princes, Exiles and Scribes: An Analysis of the Iranian Name Corpus in Achaemenid Babylonia

Ms Polina Ivanova, PhD 2019, Harvard University, USA, and Mr Maxime Duroche, PhD 2017, Paris-Sorbonne University, France,

Mapping Artisans’ Signatures in Medieval Anatolia in the Twelfth to Fifteenth Century

Naciem Nikkhah, PhD 2019, University of Cambridge, UK

Depicting the Beloved: Text and Image Relationship in Sixteenth Century Persian Painting

Honourable mentions

Dorothy Armstrong, PhD 2020, Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, Reframing the Carpet: The Afterlife of the Ardabil Carpets in the West

Roxana Zenhari, PhD 2014, University of Göttingen, Germany, Prophecy and Propagating Shi‘i Islam Among the Folks: A Survey of Illustrated Lithographed Books of the Qajar Period

Borna Izadpanah, PhD 2019, University of Reading, UK

Early Persian Movable Type Printing in India and Egypt

Honourable mentions

• Ricarda Brosch, MA 2017, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, Circuit of Gazes in the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb

• Yasmin Siabi, MA 2017, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, Gifts and Gifting and the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasb

Pouye Khoshkhoosani, PhD 2017, University of Arizona, USA

Verbal Representation of Power in Public: Patterns of Safavid Legitimacy

Honourable mentions

• Ceren Çıkın Sungur, MA 2014, Bahçeşehir University, Turkey, The Idealised Ghazi Topos and Âdâb (Codes of Courtesy) in Dâsıtan-ı Tevârîh-i Mülûk-i Âl-i Osman

• Reza Zarghamee, PhD 2019, University of St Andrews, UK, Narrative Displacement in Herodotus’s Account of Deioces: The Convergence of History and Legend

Peter Edward John Good, PhD 2017, University of Essex and the British Library, UK

Silk, Ships and Shiraz Wine: The Evolution of the East India Company’s Farman in Persia 1622-1747

John Edward Latham, PhD 2018, SOAS, University of London, UK

Shadow of Anushirvan: The North Caucasus in Medieval Iranian Sources

Honourable mention

• Robert Steele, PhD 2018, University of Exeter, UK, Costly Mistake or Valuable Investment? Evaluating the Economic Effect of the 2,500th Anniversary Celebrations

Anahita Hosseini Lewis, PhD 2020, King’s College London, University of London, UK

Neo-Nazim in Iranian Cyberspace

Honourable mentions

• Shekoufeh Behbehani, MA 2016, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sex Change Operations in Iran: Liberating or Limiting?

• Siavash Rokni, PhD 2019, University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada, The Rock Music Scene in Iran: Cultural Hybridity as an Expression of Political Enunciation

Marko Jovanović, PhD 2018, University of Belgrade, Serbia

The South Slavic Persian Literature

Honourable mention

• Niloo Sarabi, PhD 2017, University of Maryland, USA, Excessive Subjectivities: Shahrnush Parsipur’s Women Without Men and the Girl Who Became a Tree

Daniel Walter, MA 2016, Lund University, Sweden

“Calming Down” the Megalopolis: State-Sanctioned Murals and Tehran’s Visual Cityscape

Honourable mention

Golbarg Rekabtalaei, PhD 2015, North Carolina State University, USA, Imagining the Nation: “Film-Farsi” and the Depiction of Quotidian Modernity

Aleksander Engeskaug, MA ‘14, University of Bergen, Norway

Villages and Rural Settlements in the Imperial Economy of Sasanian Persia

Honourable mentions

• Raul Vitor Rodrigues Peixoto, Ph.D Candidate ’17, University of Brasília & Federal University of Goiás, Brazil, The Levelling of the Earth and the River of Molten Metal: Influences of the Great Bundahishn in the Ethiopian Book of Enoch (Book of Parables)

• Breton Langendorfer, Ph.D Candidate ’17, University of Pennsylvania, USA, Achaemenid Syntax: Architecture, Metalware and Modularity

Richard Piran McClary, Ph.D Candidate ’15, University of Edinburgh, UK

From Nakhchivān to Kemah: The Western Extent of Persianate Funerary Architecture in the 6th/12th Century

Honourable mentions

• Ana-Maria Grbanovic, MA ’14, SOAS, University of London, UK, A Re-examination of the Ilkhanid Buq’a Pie-e Bakran’s Decoration and its Aesthetics

• Agnieszka Lic, Ph.D Candidate ’16, University of Oxford, UK, Sasanian Motifs in Christian Stucco Decorations in Mesopotamia and the Gulf Regions in Late Antiquity

Ilse Sturkenboom, Ph.D Candidate ’15, University of Vienna, Austria, and University of Bamberg, Germany

The Paintings of the ‘Freer Dīvān’ of Ahmad Jalā’ir as Non-Illustrative Designs

Honourable mentions

• Mohamad Reza Ghiasian, Ph.D Candidate ’15, University of Bamberg, Germany, The Topkapı Manuscript of Jami’ al-Tawarikh (H. 1654) from Rashidiya to the Ottoman Court

• Natasha Morris, Ph.D Candidate ’17, Courtauld Institute of Art, UK, ‘Opening the Face of Isfahan’: The Safavid Single Page Painting as a Venue for Portraiture

• Mira Xenia Schwerda, Ph.D Candidate ‘18, Harvard University, USA, Picturing Revolution: The Role of the Postcard in the Constitutional Period

Natia Dzigua, Ph.D Candidate ’18, Georgian National Museum and the Georgian State Academy of Art, Georgia

Medieval Islamic Metalwork from the Georgian National Museum: Technology and Conservation

Irina Gugunava, Ph.D Candidate ’15, Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi and the Georgian National Museum, Georgia

Steel Kashkuls from the Georgian National Museum

Philip Bockholt, Ph.D Candidate ‘17, Free University of Berlin, Germany

Persian Historiography Revisited: Khvāndamīr’s Habīb al-siyar of 1524 and the Question of How to Write History in Pre-Modern Times

Honourable mentions

• Nicoletta Fazio, Ph.D Candidate ’15, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Perfecting the Prince: Kingship and the Role of Alchemical Knowledge in Iskandar bin ‘Umar Shaykh’s Anthology MS BL Add. 27261.

• Andreas Wilde, Ph.D ‘12, University of Bamberg, Germany, The Shāhnāma Revisited? The Imaging of Nādir Shāh’s Transoxania Campaign in Iranian and Bukharan Chronicles

Ruth Almagor Friedel, MA ’15, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Khomeini’s Image in French Intellectuals’ Eyes: A Cross Cultural Mirror Game

Honourable mention

• Alexander Nicholas Shaw, MA Candidate ’15, University of Leeds, UK, ‘Strong, United and Independent’: Great Britain, the Communist Challenge, and the Internationalisation of Iranian Politics, 1945-46

Volga Solak, MFA Candidate ’17, San Jose State University, USA

West Meets East Photography Collaborative

Sofia Lahuti, Ph.D Candidate ’15, Russian State University for the Humanities, Russia

Letter-Writing in the Shahnameh: Between the Pre-Islamic and the Medieval Persian Traditions

Honourable mentions

• Elliot Bannister, MA Candidate ’16, SOAS, University of London, UK, ‘What Wonderful Pictures this Pen has Made!’ The Role of Classical Persian Poetry in Contemporary Iranian Art

• Michelle Quay, Ph.D Candidate ’16, University of Cambridge, UK, Gender in Premodern Sufi Persian Literature: Zolaykhā’s Metamorphosis through the Qur’an, Sufi Tafsīr, and the Masnavīs of Farīd al-Dīn ‘Attār

Denis Volkov, Ph.D Candidate ’14, University of Manchester, UK

Persian Studies and the Military in Late Imperial Russia (1863-1917): State Power in the Service of Knowledge?

Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, MA ’12, Williams College, USA

Persian Style, Christian Subject: Edmund Dulac’s Rendition of the Adoration of the Magi Using Persian Painting Techniques

Kathy van Vliet-Leigh

2015, 2017, 2019

Iradj Bagherzade and Ali M Ansari

2013, 2015, 2017, 2019

Firuza and Charles Melville

2015, 2017, 2019

Almut Hintze, Christine van Ruymbeke, Nicholas and Ursula Sims-Williams, and their fellow trustees, 2015, 2017, 2019

Charles Melville and the Governing Council,

2019

Stephanie Cronin, Emma Rees and Adela Rauchova, 2019

Rachel Shand

2019

Elena and Yury Kudravsev, and Firuza and Charles Melville

2019

Carole and Robert Hillenbrand

2019

Saeed Talajooy and Ali M Ansari

2019

Melanie Gibson and Barbara Schwepcke

2017

Vincent Michael and Eileen Filmus

2015

Shirley Elghanian and Fereshte Moosavi

2015