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Latifeh Yarshater Award

The Latifeh Yarshater Award is a biennial academic award established by the Persian Heritage Foundation to honor the memory of Latifeh Yarshater and her dedication to improving women's human rights in Persian-speaking societies. The award recognizes outstanding scholarship in Iranian Studies that contributes to the understanding and advancement of women's status in these societies.

Purpose

The Latifeh Yarshater Award encourages academic research that:

  • Focuses on women's studies in Persian-speaking societies.
  • Contributes to the improvement of women's status in these communities.
  • Demonstrates innovation in subject matter and approach, expanding the field's parameters.

Eligibility

The award, valued at $3,000, is granted based on the following criteria:

  • The work must be of superior scholarship.
  • It must have been published within two years prior to the award.
  • Works in English are prioritized, but outstanding works in Persian, French, and German may be considered if unanimously approved by the award committee.

Award winners

2024

  • Winner: Azadeh Kian – Rethinking Gender, Ethnicity and Religion (I.B. Tauris, 2023)

2022

  • Winner: Liora Hendelman-Baavur – Creating the Iranian Woman
  • Honorable Mentions:
  • Alyssa Gabbay – Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam
  • Mateo Farzaneh – Iranian Women and Gender in the Iran-Iraq War

2020

  • Winner: Nazanin Shahrokni – Women in Place: The Politics of Gender Segregation in Iran (University of California Press, 2019)

2018

  • Winner: Ida Meftahi – Gender and Dance in Modern Iran: Biopolitics on Stage (Routledge, 2016)

2016

  • Winners:
  • Leila Rahimi Bahmany – Mirrors of Entrapment and Emancipation: Forugh Farrokhzad and Sylvia Plath (August 2015)
  • Fatemeh Shams – When They Broke Down the Door: Poems (January 2016), introduced and translated by Dick Davis

2014

Award committee

The 2024 Latifeh Yarshater Award Committee includes:

See also

References