Student Research
Undergraduate and graduate student research funded by the Iranian Studies Program
Anna (class of 2017) studied history and Iranian Studies while at Stanford. A growing interest in Iranian Studies combined with her interest in her native country, Russia, led her to the archival collections at the Hoover Institution where she examied top-secret documents from the Soviet Union about the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Her research included translating around 30 pages of…
Alina (class of 2017) is an undergraduate majoring in History and the Law and minoring in Human Rights. She is a recipient of the 2017 Marshall Scholarship, and is planning to attend Queens University Belfast for her master's degree in Conflict Transformation and Social Justice. Alina has worked at the Asian International Justice Initiative in Phnom Penh, the Balkan Institute for Conflict…
Jack (class of 2016) majored in international relations and specialized in international security and economic development. Jack and fellow Stanford student Hannah Long received funding for their project on Iranian LGBT refugees in Turkey for the summer of 2015. “[This project] was an incredible capstone experience to my Stanford career. Being able to apply the knowledge I had gained in…