Previous Winners

 The following scholars have received The Foundation's Ph.D. dissertation award over the past years:

 2011 Roham Alvandi

Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University, Nixon, Kissinger and the Shah: US-Iran Relations and the Cold War, 1969-1976

 2010 Zuzanna Olszewska

Faculty of Anthropology, Wolfson College, Oxford University  Poetry and its Social Contexts among Afghan Refugees in Iran 

 2009 Francesca Leoni

Faculty of Art and Archeology, Princeton University The Revenge of Ahriman: Images of Divs in the Shahnama, ca. 1300-1600

2008 Shahrokh Razmjou

Faculty of Birkbeck College, University of London Ritual Practices at Persepolis

2007 Alyssa Gabbay

Faculty of the Division of Humanities, the University of chicago The Language of Tolerance: Amir Khusraw and the Development of Indo-Persian Culture

2006 Sarah Bowen Savant

Committee on the Study of Religion, Harvard University Finding Our Place in the Past:Geneology and Ethnicity in Islam

2005 Dagmar A. Riedel

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Searching for the Islamic Episteme: The Status of Historical Information in Medieval Middle-Eastern Anthological Writing

2004 Cyrus Schayegh

Graduate School of Arts and sciences, Columbia University Science, Medicine, and Class in the Formation of Semi-Colonial Iran in the 1900-1940s

2003 Deborah Gerber Tor

Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University From Holy Warriors to Chivalric Order: The Ayyars in the Eastern Islamic World, A.D. 800-1055

2002 Mohammad-Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam

Faculty of History, Sorbonne Nouvelle (Universite Paris III) Les missions archeologiques Francaises et la question des antiquites en Perse (1884-1914)

2001 Shafique Nizarali Virani

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University Seekers of Union: The Ismailis from the Mongol Debacle to the Eve of the Safavid Revolution

2000 Christoph Werner

Otto-Friedrich University, Bamberg An Iranian town in transition: A Social and Economic History of the Elites of Tabriz, 1747-1848

1999 Negar Mottahedeh

University of Minnesota Representing the Unpresentable: Historical Images of Reform, from the Qajars to the Islamic Republic of Iran

1998 Shahzad Bashir

Yale University Between Mysticism and Messianism: The Life and Thought of Muhammad Nurbaksh

1997 Nader Sohrabi

Faculty of the Division of Social Sciences, University of Chicago Constitutionalism, Revolution and State: The Young Turk Revolution of 1908 and the Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906 with Comparisons to the Russian Revolution of 1905

1996 David J.Roxburgh

University of Pennsylvania Our Works Point to US: Album Making, Collecting and Art (1427-1565) under The Timurids and Safavids

1995 Franklin D. Lewis

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Reading, Writing and Recitation: Sana’i and the Origins of the Persian Ghazal

1994 Layla S. Diba

New York University Laquerwork of Safavid Persia and its Relationship to Persian Painting

1992 Jamsheed K.Choksy

Harvard University Muslims and Zoroastrians in Medieval Iran and Western Inner Asia: Cultural Transition and Religious History

1991 Janet Afary

Middle Eastern Studies and History, University of Michigan Grassroots Democracy and Social Democracy in the Iranian Constitutional Revolution, 1906-1911

1990 Mehrzad Boroujerdi

Public Administration, American University Orientalism in Reverse: Iranian Intellectuals and the West, 1960-1990

1989 Jeannine Davis-Kimball

Near Eastern Studies, University of California Proportions in Achaemenid Art

1988 Abbas Alizadeh

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago Mobile Pastoralism and the Development of Complex Societies in Highland Iran: The Evidence from Tell-i Bakun A

1987 Almuth Degener

Department of Oriental Studies, University of Hamburg Khotanische Suffixe

1986 Yeganeh Shaygan

Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Avicenna on Time

1985 Anne H. Betteridge

Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Ziarat: Pilgrimage to the Shrines of Shiraz

1984 Farah Gilanshah

Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota The Iranians of the Twin Cities