Kayhan Nejad
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Academic Year:
2018-19
Direction:
From Yale
Exchange Partners:
Moscow State University
Project Title:
From the Kremlin to the Caspian: Russo-Caucasian Political Protest in Northern Iran, 1905-22
Kayhan is a PhD candidate in the Department of History, where he is writing his dissertation on relations between Russia, Iran, and the Caucasus in the early twentieth century. Kayhan spends most of his time in Moscow, where he has previously undertaken research at the State Archive of the Russian Federation and the Russian State Library with the support of the MacMillan Center and International Security Studies at Yale (Smith Richardson Fellowship). Kayhan completed an MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge and a BA in History at the University of Washington.